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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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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga

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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