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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 aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse

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

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