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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
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
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
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 back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul

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