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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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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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 we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul

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