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Practice Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar
- Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in it, and my…
- Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
- The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is…
- When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
- By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
- If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under…
- 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…
- Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
- Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
- Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be…
- The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is…
- Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
- This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
- When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within…
- Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for…
- If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
- We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are…
- It is never too late in life to practice yoga
- The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas…
- As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in…
- As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs…
- Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
- Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
- Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the…
- The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that…
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
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- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
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- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt