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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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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul

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