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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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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
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
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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