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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain

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