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

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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
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
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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
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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