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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames 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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
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
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga

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