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

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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
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
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
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
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture

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