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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.

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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound

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