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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga

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