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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.


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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.

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.



Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.



Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.



Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.



The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.



In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.



In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.



Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.



The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.



Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.





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Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

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Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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