"Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible."
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"Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole."
"As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self."
"Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active"
"The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings."
"Your body is the child of your soul."
"The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it."
"On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness."
"Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes."
"Stress is extremely harmful to the body."
"The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form."
"Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you."
"Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source."
"Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now."
"Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not."
"Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves."
"Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain."
"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"
"I love body parts, especially hands."
"While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands."