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"Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth."
"The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old."
"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
"Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
"Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body."
"A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body."
"The eye is the jewel of the body."
"Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest."
"Your house is your larger body."
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment."
"Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet."
"When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness."
"Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end."
"If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease"
"The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived."
"A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health."
"Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches."
"Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature"
