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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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