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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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
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

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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