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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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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 releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality 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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower

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