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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
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
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
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

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