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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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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
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
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice

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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