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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
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

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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