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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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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Mind Party Two
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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