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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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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
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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Doe Flower Water
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun

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