It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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