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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
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
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
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
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors 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

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