Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
B.K.S. IYENGARSometimes 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARSpirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
B.K.S. IYENGARThere is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
B.K.S. IYENGARKnowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
B.K.S. IYENGARWhy should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhile doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
B.K.S. IYENGARI also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGARLearning is as much an art as teaching
B.K.S. IYENGARA 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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