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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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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know

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