B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Progress, Body, Asana

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.11, Rodale

• In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body and progressing through mind and intelligence, and ultimately to the soul. The yogic journey guides us from our periphery, the body, to the center ofour being, the soul. The aim is to integrate the variouslayers so that the inner divinity shines out as through clear glass.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Journey, Glasses, Order

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.3, Rodale

• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past. That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past. Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress. Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Memories, Mean, Past

• There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Keys, Issues, Progress

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.5, Rodale

• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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