B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 4

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• By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

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  Inspiring, Drawing, Silence

  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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• We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

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  Pieces, Littles, Infinite

  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 is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

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  Honesty, Yoga, Book

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.16, Rodale

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• The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

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  Cells, Body, Yogi

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.246, Rodale

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• Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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  Intelligent, Desire, 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.12, Rodale

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• Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

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  Inspiring, Willpower, Willingness

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

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  Drug, Pills, Body

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• If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

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  Moving, Differences, Balance

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.48, Rodale

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

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  Stars, Animal, Essence

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

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  Body, Nervous, Nervous System

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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  Rain, Grace, Ego

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• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Keys

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.32, Allied Publishers

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• The pose begins when you want to leave it.

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  Yoga, Want, Yoga Practice

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• When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

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  Mind, Done, Movement

  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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• It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?

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  Mind, Realization, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

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  Prayer, Body, Asana

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.329, Allied Publishers

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• The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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  Lakes, Self, Mind

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• Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

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  Inspiring, Goal, Spirituality

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.18, Rodale

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• Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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  Rays, Sun, Awareness

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• When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

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  Moving, Way, Awareness

  "BKS Iyengar: Body and soul" by Sanjukta Sharma, www.livemint.com. December 14, 2013.

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• The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

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  Practice, Bird, Soul

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• Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

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  Celebration, Lively, Dies

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.266, Rodale

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• Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

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• Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

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  Mind, Doe, Different

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• Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

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  Soul, Training, Mind

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