Move from the known to the unknown.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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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 uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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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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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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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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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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