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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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
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
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
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
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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