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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity 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
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga

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