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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
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
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul

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