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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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