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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi

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