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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

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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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind

We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

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