B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 3

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• Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Past

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• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

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  Life, Yoga, Heart

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

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• Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

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  Inspiring, Teacher, Compassion

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• Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

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  Art, Yoga, Soul

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1985). “The art of Yoga”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.

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  Cells, Blood, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.258, Rodale

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• Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

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  Yoga, Faces, Helping

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• The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

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  Yoga, Light, Special

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.21, Rodale

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• Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

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  Inspiring, Stress, Struggle

  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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• In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

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  Soul, Mind, Body

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

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• Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

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  Kings, Mind, Breaths

  "Astadala Yogamala". Volume 5,

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• There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

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  Reality, Universal

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.8, Rodale

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• Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

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  Yoga, Mean, Journey

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• An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

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  Heart, Intellectual, Mind

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• There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

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  Reality, Way

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• When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

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  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  "Healthiest You Ever: 365 Ways to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Boost Your BMI, Lower Your Blood Pressure, Increase Your Stamina, Improve Your Cholesterol Levels, and Energize from Head to Toe!" by Meera Lester, p. 291, December 18, 2011.

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

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  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

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  Yoga, Self, Body

  "India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies". www.bbc.com. August 20, 2014.

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• He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with respect and attention. His words will be remembered, for they will be good and true. When one who is established in truth prays with a pure heart, then things he really needs come to him when they are really needed: he does not have to run after them. The man firmly established in truth gets the fruit of his actions without apparently doing anything. God, the source of all truth, supplies his needs and looks after his welfare.

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  Running, Truth, Heart

  "Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works".

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• We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

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  Moving, Challenges, Disturbance

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

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  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

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  Stress, Self, Practice

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• Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
  That is contentment.

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  Contentment, Should, Success Or Failure

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

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• When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

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  Healthy, Soul, Humanity

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• Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.

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  Movement, Spine, Accurate

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• Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

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  Inspiring, Disappointment, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2005). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.224, Rodale

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