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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

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun

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