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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
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
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga

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