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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
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
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice

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