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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul 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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

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