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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
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
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind

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