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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
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
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
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
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga

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