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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Sharon Gannon

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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
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When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
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To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
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Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.
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Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
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See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.
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