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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

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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
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise

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