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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
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
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way

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