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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People

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