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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important 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
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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

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