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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love 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 back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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