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Love Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

39 Love quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

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You have to create love for your body, says B.K.S. Iyengar, urging care down to each cell. He links love to courage, moderation, and humility, saying they together make a strong, kind person. He also reminds us to live in the present and meet every pose with fresh eyes.

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There must be relaxation in full extension.

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Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

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Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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The pose begins when you want to leave it.

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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.

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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

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One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

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The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind

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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp.…

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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and…

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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in…

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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.

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The commercialism may wash off sometime later.

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

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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.

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Learning is as much an art as teaching

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

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Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind.

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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.

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Do not live in the future, only the present is real

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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

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Move from the known to the unknown.

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What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

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Action is movement with intelligence

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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

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Approach each asana with freshness every day.

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In each pose there should be repose.

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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

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