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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
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
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing

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