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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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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real

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