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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
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
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
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
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

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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