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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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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
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

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