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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love 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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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

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