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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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

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