B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 2

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• Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.

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  Yoga, Exercise, Perfection

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• Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

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  Yoga, Discipline, Soul

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.62, Rodale

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• Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

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  Inspiring, Jobs, Focus

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• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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  Inspiring, Unbroken, Awareness

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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• The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

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  Rip, Yoga, Practice

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• Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

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  Sunlight, Plant, Fulfillment

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.14, Rodale

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• Learning is as much an art as teaching

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  Art, Teaching

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• Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

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  Self, Worry, Attention

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.34, Rodale

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• Intensity is a mental attitude more than a physical attitude. Many people misunderstand what intensity means. They think it means straining and sweating. No! That is a wrong meaning of the word! Intensity is to get totally involved, fully immersed and absorbed in what one is doing. Intense practice means a fast and keen mode in adjusting, correcting, and progressively proceeding.

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  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2009). “B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Wisdom and Practice”, p.112, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

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  Yoga, Class, Differences

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• Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

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  B.K.S. Iyengar (2005). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.234, Rodale

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• Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

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  Thinking, Littles, Little Things

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.

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  Yoga, Simple, Practice

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

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• The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

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  Inspiring, Art, Teaching

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• 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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  Past, Mind, Asana

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.57, Rodale

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• The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

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  Choices, Decision, Brave

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• The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

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  Challenges, Asana, Gains

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1993). “Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā”, Thorsons Pub

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• 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. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

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  Mistake, Yoga, People

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B. K. S. Iyengar, 2005.

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• Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

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  Yoga, Mirrors, Looks

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• As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

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  Yoga, Branches, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2008). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7”, p.252, Allied Publishers

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• Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

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  Flower, Yoga, Yield

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.24, Rodale

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• If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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  Light, Brain, Armpits

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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  Peace, India, Nations

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

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  Receptivity

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

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• The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

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  Flower, Water, Doe

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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