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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

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