Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
B.K.S. IYENGAR
B.K.S. IYENGAR
B.K.S. Iyengar on skills
B.K.S. Iyengar212 quotes“Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.”
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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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B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Learning is as much an art as teaching
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Abhyasa (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.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Ben HoganBen Hogan If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
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