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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield 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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
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
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

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