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

B.K.S. Iyengar

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces

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