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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice 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
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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
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
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul

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