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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
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
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul

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