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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

B.K.S. Iyengar

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self

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