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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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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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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

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

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