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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

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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 Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light

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