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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
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
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
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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