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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

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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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
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
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
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
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

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