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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
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 highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
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
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise

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