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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
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

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