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Without education, confidence does not come.

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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
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
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision

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