B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 5

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• You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.

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  Moving, Goal, Achievement

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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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• 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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• Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

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  Yoga, Journey, Self

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.175, Rodale

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• If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.

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  Armpits, Ifs

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• If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

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  Balance, Eternity, Ifs

  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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• Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

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  Yoga, Self, Mind

  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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• All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

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  Yoga, Flames, Divinity

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• The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

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  Yoga, Yesterday, Today

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• When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.

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  Silence, Brain, Mind

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• There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

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  Keys, Issues, Progress

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.5, Rodale

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• The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

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  Inspiring, Light, Shining

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.27, Rodale

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• Breath is the king of mind.

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  Inspiring, Kings, Mind

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• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

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  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  "Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā".

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• As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

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  Moving, Wind, Mind

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.76, Rodale

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• Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

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  Yoga, May, Kind

  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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• The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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  Brain, Body, Asana

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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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• Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

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  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.396, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

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  Yoga, Community, Growth

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• Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

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  Yoga, Soul, Gates

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

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  Mean, Journey, 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.22, Rodale

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• We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

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  Mind, Sound Body, Needs

  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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• The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

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  Intelligent, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

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  Inspiring, Faults, Same Mistakes

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.59, Rodale

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