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Yoga Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

113 Yoga quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

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B.K.S. Iyengar says yoga is a fire that awakens a hidden spark of divinity inside each person. He teaches that steady practice calms a restless mind, directs energy into useful work, and turns the body into a mirror that shows the inner self. With persistence anyone can move toward freedom and a quiet illumination.

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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

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The pose begins when you want to leave it.

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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

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It is never too late in life to practice yoga

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Approach each asana with freshness every day.

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Yoga is a means and an end.

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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

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

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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery…

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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…

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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.…

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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

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The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.…

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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward…

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Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach…

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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To…

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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is…

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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this…

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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet…

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I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are…

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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you…

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“So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal…

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Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in…

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“Consciousness is imbued with the three qualities (gunas) of luminosity (sattva), vibrancy (rajas) and inertia (tamas). The gunas also colour our actions:…

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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.

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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

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