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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

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
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
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
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains

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