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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

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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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
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
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality

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