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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

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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
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice

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