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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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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher

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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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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