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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery 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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