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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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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Discrimination Men Real
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
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
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
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins

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