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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
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
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

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