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

B.K.S. Iyengar

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat 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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
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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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
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
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
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

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