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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness 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
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound

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