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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

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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
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water

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