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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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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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
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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
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
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

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