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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
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
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
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
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
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching

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