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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
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
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul 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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality

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