B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 7

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• The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

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  Overcoming, Way, Faces

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• Without education, confidence does not come.

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  Doe

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

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  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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• Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

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  Emotional, Soul, Intellectual

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

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• Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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  Space, Precision, Extensions

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

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• Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

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  Kings, Asana, Reason

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• There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

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  Yoga, Class, Differences

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• A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.

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  Mean, Sea, Land

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.19, Rodale

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• That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

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  Emotional, Mind, Looks

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• Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

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  Sweat, Commodity

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.24, Rodale

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• In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence of the head is brought into contact with the seat of the intelligence of the heart, which is called the mind. Thus one passes from the individualistic state of consciousness to the universal state of consciousness. It is the merging of the intellect of the brain with the intellect of the soul.

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  Heart, Eye, Light

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• Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

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  Past, Feelings, Movement

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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

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  Spiritual, Growth, Enlightenment

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• One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

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  Inspiring, Spiritual, Lying

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

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• If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.

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  Yoga, Pharmacy, Ifs

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• I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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  Empty Mind, Mind, Empty

  "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. August 20, 2014.

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• When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

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  Inspiring, Artist, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.9, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• To be dull is easy,
  to be active requires
  tremendous work.

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  Dull, Easy, Active

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• Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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  Yoga, Creative, Release

  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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• The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

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  Yoga, Calm, Chaos

  "A Fitness Tip to Overcome Conflict" by Mike MacConnell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2016.

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• If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

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  Compulsion, Ifs, Limitation

  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

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• There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

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  Ideas, Differences, Soul

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• Where there is yoga,
  there is prosperity,
  success, freedom and bliss.

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  Yoga, Prosperity, Bliss

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• You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.

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  Intelligent, Cells, Skins

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

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  Moving, Way, Awareness

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

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