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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga

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