Action is movement with intelligence
B.K.S. IYENGARHow can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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