I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
B.K.S. IYENGARBefore peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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