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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

B.K.S. Iyengar

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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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Body Practice Research
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
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
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
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

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