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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student

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