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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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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
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
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
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring 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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes

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