Top 21 Krishnamacharya Quotes
#1. According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
A. G. Mohan
#2. Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
A. G. Mohan
#3. Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#4. Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#5. Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#6. Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#7. Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#9. I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
Israel Horovitz
#10. In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#11. I'm a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.
Liu Cixin
#12. I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
Matthew Sweet
#13. Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#16. Teach what is inside you.
Not as it applies to you, to yourself,
but as it applies to the other.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#18. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#19. I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.
Russell Simmons
#20. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.
Henry James
#21. Remember, you don't have to outrun the zombie. You just have to outrun your friends.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
