Awareness Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

15 Awareness quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

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For anyone who’s ever felt the tension between body and mind, B.K.S. Iyengar’s fifteen short notes provide a clear bridge. He shows how awareness can be felt in the stretch of a pose, turning practice into a subtle, ongoing dialogue.

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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

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

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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens

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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away…

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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its…

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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,…

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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

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Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But…

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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…

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Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or…

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You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of…

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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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