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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

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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
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
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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga

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