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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

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower

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