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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
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
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
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 best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way

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