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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed 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
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 ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul 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
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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