Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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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.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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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.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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