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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing 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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul 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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Long Perfect Thinking
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

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