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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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