Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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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.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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