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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Practice Understanding Yesterday
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Prayer Standing Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Easier Next Willpower
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Philosophy Spiritual
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Posture Study
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Passive Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
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.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mean Sleep Space
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Faces Helping Yoga
Yoga 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. IYENGAR

Mind Self Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Layers
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Little Things Littles Thinking
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Flower Roots Tree
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Hard Work Humility Spiritual

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