You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn 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!
B.K.S. IYENGARIt 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
B.K.S. IYENGARAsana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
B.K.S. IYENGARWithout the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
B.K.S. IYENGARPersistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
B.K.S. IYENGARGive more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
B.K.S. IYENGARLove begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
B.K.S. IYENGARBy persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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