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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

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Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga

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