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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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 back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer

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