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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

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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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey 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

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

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