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

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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

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