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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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