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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga

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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