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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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
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
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 the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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