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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul

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