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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys 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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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 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
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

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