B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 9

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• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

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  Relief, Body, Painting

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Where there is yoga,
  there is prosperity,
  success, freedom and bliss.

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  Yoga, Prosperity, Bliss

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• To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

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  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

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  Yoga, Practice, Effort

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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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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• Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

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  Spiritual, Hard Work, Humility

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• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

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  Attention, Wavering, Fool

  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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• Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

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  Art, Yoga, Symmetrical

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• In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body and progressing through mind and intelligence, and ultimately to the soul. The yogic journey guides us from our periphery, the body, to the center ofour being, the soul. The aim is to integrate the variouslayers so that the inner divinity shines out as through clear glass.

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  Journey, Glasses, Order

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.3, Rodale

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• Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

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  Next, Willpower, Easier

  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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• While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.

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  Mean, Sleep, Space

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• Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.

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  Eye, Mind, Looks

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• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

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  Pain, Yoga, Keys

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• Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

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  Reality, Constant, Eternal

  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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• Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

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  Mind, Body, Discrimination

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• Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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  Body, Asana, Layers

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• If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

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  Yoga, Practice, Self

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• How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

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  Inspiring, Toes, Bigs

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• It is never too late in life to practice yoga

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  Yoga, Practice, Too Late

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• The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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  Yoga, Self, Ego

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.89, Rodale

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• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

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  Practice, Research, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

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  Yoga, Humility, Love Is

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• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A #‎ yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

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  Teaching, Writing, Self

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• The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

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  Effort, Balance, Modern Life

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

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  Horse, Hands, Breathing

  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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