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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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 uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve

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