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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga

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