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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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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
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
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga

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

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