| If you are deciding which Yoga book to buy for your | | | | words of Andrew Carnegie, "I resolved to stop |
| collection, choose a book that will captivate your | | | | accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and |
| imagination, and suit your needs. On the subject of | | | | difficult task of wise distribution." |
| reading Yoga books: It has been a life long passion for | | | | To learn knowledge, without applying it to life, is a |
| some of us. Yet, it is not the number of books you | | | | waste. It is not intentional, in most cases, but what a |
| read, but how you apply them to your life and the lives | | | | shame it is to know so much and not be able to help |
| of others around you, which makes a difference. | | | | anyone with it. |
| The practical application of what you learn is more | | | | Within Yoga, today, are so many books to read, which |
| important than the quantity of Yoga books you read. | | | | were not accessible to many of us a few decades |
| So, the question is: How will you put the knowledge | | | | ago. Some Yoga texts have been in existence for |
| you learn to good use? To take an extreme view: If a | | | | thousands of years, but local libraries did not have |
| homeless man reads personal finance magazines | | | | much on the topic of Yoga. |
| every day, he has educated himself, but he has not | | | | At that time, we did not have VCR's, DVD's, Internet |
| applied any of the advice. | | | | access, e-Books, MP3 Downloads, or Yoga audio |
| You would be surprised what the homeless know. I | | | | books. |
| knew a man who was homeless, yet he was very | | | | So, what did we do? When we acquired a Yoga |
| familiar with the "ups and downs" of the stock market. | | | | book, or any book, we analyzed it by hand, and read a |
| How did he learn so much? He pulled the Wall Street | | | | little. We made sure it would suit our needs, before we |
| Journal from the trash and mentally absorbed it. | | | | checked it out of the library, or purchased it from a |
| Unfortunately, he never applied the knowledge he | | | | book store. |
| learned. | | | | The reason is simple - If we buy or borrow any kind of |
| This is a critical point to understand. Knowledge is like a | | | | a book, the value of our time is magnified by our |
| bank savings account - You have to save, but you | | | | complete comprehension and the ability to put it to |
| also have to put your savings to good use. In the | | | | practical use. |