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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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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
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
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
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
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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
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
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity

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