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~ By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. ~
~ Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. ~
~ Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~
~ Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~
~ Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ~
~ Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed. ~
~ In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death]. ~
~ Yoga heals, nourishes, and challenges us. The practice infiltrates every corner of our lives. ~
~ Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. ~
~ Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted -- in body, mind, and heart -- and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow -- or we begin to flow more in our lives. ~
~ What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. ~
~ Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. ~
~ If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~
~ Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~
~ This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake. ~
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