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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self 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
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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