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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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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training

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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