B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Life, Yoga, Heart

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

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

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  Rays, Sun, Awareness

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• Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

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• Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

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  Block, Mind, Flow

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• In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

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  Soul, Mind, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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  Peace, India, Nations

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

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  Inspiring, Faults, Same Mistakes

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.59, Rodale

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• He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with respect and attention. His words will be remembered, for they will be good and true. When one who is established in truth prays with a pure heart, then things he really needs come to him when they are really needed: he does not have to run after them. The man firmly established in truth gets the fruit of his actions without apparently doing anything. God, the source of all truth, supplies his needs and looks after his welfare.

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  Running, Truth, Heart

  "Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works".

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

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  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

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

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  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

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  Reality, Universal

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

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• The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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  Lakes, Self, Mind

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• It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

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  Yoga, Doe, Way

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.34, Rodale

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• Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

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  Inspiring, Goal, Spirituality

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.18, Rodale

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• Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

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  Inspiring, Yoga And Life, Needs

  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

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• The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

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  Yoga, Yesterday, Today

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• You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.

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  Moving, Goal, Achievement

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• Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

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  Sunlight, Plant, Fulfillment

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.14, Rodale

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• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

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  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  "Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā".

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• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

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  Humility, Love Is, Abundance

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• The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

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  Yoga, Light, Special

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.21, Rodale

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• Breath is the king of mind.

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  Inspiring, Kings, Mind

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• Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.

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  Song, Yoga, Cells

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• Action is movement with intelligence

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  Movement, Action

  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

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• As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

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  Moving, Wind, 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.76, Rodale

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