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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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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Keys Pain Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain

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