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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

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