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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga

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