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.
B.K.S. IYENGARAbhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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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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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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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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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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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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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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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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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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