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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga

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