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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth 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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute 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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Attention Desire Intelligent

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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