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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed 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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping 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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
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
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two

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