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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
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
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy

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