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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

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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
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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

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