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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
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
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga

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