Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is never too late in life to practice yoga
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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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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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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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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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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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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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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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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