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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study

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