"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
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"Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language."
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"Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation."
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"You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body."
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"I not only have a body; I am this body."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."
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"Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions."
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"Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body."
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"The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time."
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"The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers."
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"If you have a body you are a dancer"
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"When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga."
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"If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist."
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"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."
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"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."
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"I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang."
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"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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"For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars."
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"The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily."
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