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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

B.K.S. Iyengar

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga

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