B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes

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• The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
  It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

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  Asana, Study, Posture

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• Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

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  Challenges, Mind, Doe

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• The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

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  Yoga, Confusion, Simplicity

  "BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health".

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• Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

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  Flower, Roots, Tree

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• Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

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  Thinking, Suffering, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.40, Rodale

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

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  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.

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  Rise Above, Limitation

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• Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

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  Inspiring, Moving, Yoga

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• A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

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  Mind, World, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.165, Rodale

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• Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Values

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• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

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  Humble, Pride, Intellectual

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• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

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  Health, Soul And Body, Mind

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 48), September 19, 2006.

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• Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

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  Balance, Foundation, Body

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.43, Rodale

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• As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

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  Self, Long, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

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  Art, Philosophy, Yoga

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• You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

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  Body, Asana, Legs

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

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• When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.

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  Brain, Mind, Sake

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• This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

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  Weed, Yoga, Garden

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.41, Rodale

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• Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Symphony

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6”, p.129, Allied Publishers

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• Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

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  Yoga, Arrows, Soul

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• Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

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  Doubt, Mind

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• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

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  Light, Practice, Inner Beauty

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• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

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  Humility, Love Is, Abundance

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• Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.

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  Song, Yoga, Cells

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