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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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga

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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