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

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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
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
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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

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