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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors 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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice

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