B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Divinity

  "Yoga Connects You to the Perfection You Seek" by Vyda Bielkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

• We 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. Iyengar

  Party, Two, Mind

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.28, Rodale

• Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mean, Journey

• 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 a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Order, Essence

• While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mean, Sleep, Space

• Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Awareness, Aim

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Way, Awareness

  "BKS Iyengar: Body and soul" by Sanjukta Sharma, www.livemint.com. December 14, 2013.

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Rays, Sun, Awareness

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Body, Discrimination

• Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Unbroken, Awareness

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Soul, Training, Mind

• Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Desire, Attention

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

• You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Legs

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

• 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 mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens... My body is a laboratory, you can say. I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Moving, Yoga

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