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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy 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
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry

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