Quote by Sri Aurobindo
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. – Sri Aurobindo

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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. – Sri Aurobindo

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. – Sri Aurobindo

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. – Sri Aurobindo

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Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. – Jason Crandell, quoted in Yoga Journal, November 2005

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Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. – Carol Krucoff

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Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called the still point of the turning world. – Barbara Stoler Miller

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