Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
B.K.S. IYENGARI 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARFear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhy think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGARRegular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
B.K.S. IYENGARKnowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
B.K.S. IYENGAREverybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
B.K.S. IYENGARI always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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