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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
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

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