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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

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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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Contentment Failure Success
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving

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