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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
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
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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space

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