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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality

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