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

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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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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

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