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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
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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Body Important Soul
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga

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