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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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Blood Cells Practice
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
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
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality

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