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

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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga

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

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