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

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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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
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
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
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
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress

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