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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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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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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

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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