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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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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness 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
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

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