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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?

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga

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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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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