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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
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
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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

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