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

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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos 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
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
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
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga

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