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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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
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
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
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
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
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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values 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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space

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