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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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