Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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I 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.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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