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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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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way

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