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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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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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 long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga

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