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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
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
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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