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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
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
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes

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