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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
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 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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight

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