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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken

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