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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

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