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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

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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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
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
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
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
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

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