If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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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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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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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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Move from the known to the unknown.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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