B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 8

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• In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence of the head is brought into contact with the seat of the intelligence of the heart, which is called the mind. Thus one passes from the individualistic state of consciousness to the universal state of consciousness. It is the merging of the intellect of the brain with the intellect of the soul.

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  Heart, Eye, Light

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• One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

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  Inspiring, Spiritual, Lying

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.11, Rodale

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• Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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  Space, Precision, Extensions

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

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  Spiritual, Growth, Enlightenment

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• There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

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  Ideas, Differences, Soul

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• Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

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  Inspiring, Yoga, Mean

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• You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it with the organ of the body that is closest to the soul - the heart. So a virtuous asana is done from the heart and not from the head. Then you are not just doing it, but you are in it. Many people try to think their way into an asana, but you must instead feel your way into it through love and devotion

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  Heart, Thinking, People

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

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• To be dull is easy,
  to be active requires
  tremendous work.

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  Dull, Easy, Active

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• The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

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  Yoga, Calm, Chaos

  "A Fitness Tip to Overcome Conflict" by Mike MacConnell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2016.

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• I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

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  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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• If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.

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  Yoga, Pharmacy, Ifs

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• Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

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  Past, Feelings, Movement

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• Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

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  Kings, Asana, Reason

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• It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

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  Inspiring, Art, Yoga

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• When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

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  Inspiring, Artist, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.9, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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  Empty Mind, Mind, Empty

  "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. August 20, 2014.

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• When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

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  Soul, Mind, Stills

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.158, Rodale

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• Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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  Yoga, Creative, Release

  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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• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

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  Yoga, Order, Essence

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• I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

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  Practice, Yesterday, Understanding

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• Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

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  Yoga, Practice, Substitutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.94, Rodale

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• If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

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  Compulsion, Ifs, Limitation

  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 have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

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  Eye, Two, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.124, Shambhala Publications

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• Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

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  Pain, Compassion, Humanity

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• The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

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  Needs, Body, Spirit

  "Astadala Yogamala: Collected Works". Volume 2,

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