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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

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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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga

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