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

B.K.S. Iyengar

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine

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