As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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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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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Why 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.
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In 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!
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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