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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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

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