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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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