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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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