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

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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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

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