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

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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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 Challenges Gains
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga

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