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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
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
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga

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