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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life 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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring 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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun

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