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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit

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