Yoga 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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The 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.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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