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The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature e

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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If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more. – Patricia Walden

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A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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