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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

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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
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
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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release 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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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 needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying

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