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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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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song 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
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga

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