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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space

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