B.K.S. Iyengar — Spiritual Quotes

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B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes

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B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga Teacher

Spiritual

“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.”

Goal Inspiring Spirituality

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B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga Teacher

Spiritual

“Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.”

Body Layers Asana

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Spiritual

“Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.”

Body Perfect

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Spiritual

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

Way Doe

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Spiritual

“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.”

Practice Understanding Yesterday

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Spiritual

“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.”

Mean Past Memories

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Spiritual

“Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.”

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Spiritual

“We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.”

Mind Needs

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Spiritual

“As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.”

Thinking Long Perfect

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Spiritual

“The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.”

Soul Practice Bird

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Spiritual

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

Men Spiritual Yoga

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Spiritual

“When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.”

Self Practice Yoga

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