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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

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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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past 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
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study

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