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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 the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
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
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
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

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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