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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

B.K.S. Iyengar

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga

A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

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