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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive 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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Doe Flower Water
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga

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