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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
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
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul

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