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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga

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