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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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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
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System

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