Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
B.K.S. IYENGARLack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
B.K.S. IYENGARPractice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. IYENGARTo be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhy think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
B.K.S. IYENGARThrough surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga 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. IYENGARExtension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
B.K.S. IYENGARWithout education, confidence does not come.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. IYENGARGive more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARA lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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