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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?

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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way

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