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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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