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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

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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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Garden Weed Yoga
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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
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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Mistake Trying Way
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga

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