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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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
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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
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
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
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
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

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