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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking 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
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
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
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
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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Balance Differences Moving
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday

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