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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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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
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
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
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
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga

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