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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.

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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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy 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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga

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