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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization

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