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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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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release 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 is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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

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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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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