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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
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
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey

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