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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

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