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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher

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