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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga

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