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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga

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