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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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 you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
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

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