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You exist without the feeling of existence.

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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical 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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
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
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song 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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

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