T. K. V. Desikachar Quotes

• The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Heart, Body

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• The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Relationship, Positive, Life Changing

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• Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Practice, Breathe

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

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  Our Actions, Action, Habit

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

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  Yoga, Mind, Mastery

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• In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible, Stage

  T. K. V. Desikachar, R. H. Cravens (2011). “Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya”, p.18, North Point Press

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• A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
  and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Teacher, Helping, Individual

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• The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Confusion, Recognition, Clarity

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• The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

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  Yoga, Feelings, Quality

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• Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Giving, Doe

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Practice, Attention

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.

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  Long, Important, Smooth

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• The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Regret, Yoga, Goal

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Yoga, unlike dance or mime,
  is not an expression of form for others to watch.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Expression, Watches

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1980). “Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice”, p.46, University Press of America

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• As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, People, Focus

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• Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Moving, Taught Us, Important

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• Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

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  Yoga, Practice, Get Better

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.

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  Life, Yesterday, Doe

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• The world exists to set us free.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  World

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Practice, Our Actions

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Teacher, Two, Want

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• Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Movement, Arrivals

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Sky, Want, Enough

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor!

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Character, Doors, Visitors

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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