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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training

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