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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

B.K.S. Iyengar

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring 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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

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