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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
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

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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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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