Top 30 Mr Iyengar Quotes
#1. If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Prashant Iyengar
#2. Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#3. Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.
Geeta Iyengar
#4. As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.
Sheena Iyengar
#5. As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#6. As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#7. But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#8. During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like the clouds which are spreading in the sky.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#9. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#11. People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#12. Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
B.K.S. Iyengar
#13. When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
B.K.S. Iyengar
#14. We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
Sheena Iyengar
#15. There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#16. You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question.
Sheena Iyengar
#17. Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#18. Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#19. Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#21. How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?
B.K.S. Iyengar
#22. My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.
Sheena Iyengar
#23. If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#24. Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#25. The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#26. One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#27. Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#28. In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.
Sheena Iyengar
#29. When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#30. If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician ...
Sheena Iyengar
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