B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 11

Quotes about:

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

• 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 experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Yesterday, Understanding

  11 Copy quote

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

  8 Copy quote

• As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Long, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

  4 Copy quote

• As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Branches, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2008). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7”, p.252, Allied Publishers

  4 Copy quote

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Important, Unimportant

  5 Copy quote

• When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Asana

  7 Copy quote

• Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Restless Mind, Energy

  6 Copy quote

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Philosophical, Views

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.15, Rodale

  4 Copy quote

• In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Backbends

  66 Copy quote

• I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Children, Play, Brain

  41 Copy quote

• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humble, Pride, Intellectual

  28 Copy quote

• Yoga is a means and an end.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Yoga, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Adventure, Journey, Men

  4 Copy quote

• In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Use, Made

  54 Copy quote

• People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Struggle, People, Mind

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

  14 Copy quote

• Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, Substitutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.94, Rodale

  10 Copy quote

• For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Art, Fall, Passion

  4 Copy quote

• Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Recovery, Impact

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.23, Rodale

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself outwards from the centre of the body, i.e., think tall. Think not just of raising your arms but of extending them outwards and when you are holding them still, think again of reaching still further away from your body. Do not think of yourself as a small compressed suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding - no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Thinking, Light, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

  6 Copy quote

Page 11 of 12

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin