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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
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
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
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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Strive Today Twelve
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
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
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System

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