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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
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
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

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