"Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it."
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"Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized."
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"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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"The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God."
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"Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
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"Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss."
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"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."
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"Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability"
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"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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"When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga."
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"I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.""
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"When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul."
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"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything."
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"The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice."
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"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
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"Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion."
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"You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul."
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"The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit."
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"I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers."
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"Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired."
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