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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?

B.K.S. Iyengar

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Extensions Precision Space
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Lying Spiritual
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.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Posture
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Dies Happily Majestically People
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Brain
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Awareness Moving Way
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Keys Pain Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Energy Inward Mind
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Easier Next Willpower
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Posture Study
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. IYENGAR

May Suffering Thinking
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Life Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Come Confidence Education
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Abundance Humility Love

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