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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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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
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
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul

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