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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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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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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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