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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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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs

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