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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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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
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

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

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