One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated 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 when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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