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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

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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
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

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