How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARApproach each asana with freshness every day.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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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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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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While 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.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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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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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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