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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga

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