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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga

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