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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
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
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May 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
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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