Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
B.K.S. IYENGARI can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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