B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Heart

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Sweat

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.45, Rodale

• It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.8, Rodale

• The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.61, Rodale

• Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.396, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

• I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Thinking

• 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 I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice].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

• Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Exercise, Perfection

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