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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go 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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World

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