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

B.K.S. Iyengar

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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