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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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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
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
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
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
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way

Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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