B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes About Yoga
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The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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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 allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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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
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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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.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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