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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

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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
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining

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