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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
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
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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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Attention Desire Intelligent
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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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Long Perfect Thinking
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi

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