The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhy think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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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.
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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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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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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.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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