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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills 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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga

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