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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
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
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up

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