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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.

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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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
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

We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.

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