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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
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
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
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
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture

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