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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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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces

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