Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
B.K.S. IYENGARFrom Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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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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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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