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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values 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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space

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