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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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