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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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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Cutting Winning Yoga
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
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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