B.K.S. Iyengar on community
B.K.S. Iyengar212 quotes“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.”
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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