B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 11

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• You exist without the feeling of existence.

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  Inspiring, Feelings, Existence

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.30, Rodale

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• In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

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  Mind, Use, Made

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• Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

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  Yoga, Restless Mind, Energy

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• During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

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  Moving, Clouds, Sky

  "Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar".

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• The commercialism may wash off sometime later.

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  May, Commercialism

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• Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.

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  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

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  Games, Knows, Ifs

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.7, Rodale

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• Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

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  Yoga, Recovery, Impact

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.23, Rodale

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• Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

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  Should, Repose

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

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  Meditation, Posture, Backbends

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

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  Giving, Principles, Students

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• One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

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  One Day, May, Practise

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

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  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

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  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

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  Yoga, Mind, Body

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.50, Rodale

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• Do not live in the future, only the present is real

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  Real

  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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• When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?

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  Asana

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• Yoga is a means and an end.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Mean

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• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

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  Stress, Philosophical, Views

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.15, Rodale

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• In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

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  Body, Backbends

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• I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.

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  Children, Play, Brain

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• The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

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  Adventure, Journey, Men

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• People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

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  Struggle, People, Mind

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

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  Art, Fall, Passion

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• I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

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  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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