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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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 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

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