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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
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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Body Important Soul
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision

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