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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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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
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
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
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise

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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