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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping 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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga

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