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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
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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
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
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study

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