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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
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 primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud

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