Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
B.K.S. IYENGARIf you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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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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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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