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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People

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