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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
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
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
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
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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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Brave Choices Decision
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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
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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring

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