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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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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
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
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
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

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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