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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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