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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
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
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 brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind

Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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