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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

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