When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. B.K.S. Iyengar More Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar More Quotes From B.K.S. Iyengar By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. B.K.S. Iyengar drawingsilenceinspiring I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind. B.K.S. Iyengar empty-mindemptymind When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion. B.K.S. Iyengar silencemindbrain Yoga releases the creative potential in life. B.K.S. Iyengar releaseyogacreative Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now. B.K.S. Iyengar little-thingslittlesthinking The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence. B.K.S. Iyengar ignorancesoulinspiring Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth. B.K.S. Iyengar precisionextensionsspace The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings. B.K.S. Iyengar ribsbodywings Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind. B.K.S. Iyengar pranayamabreathingmind 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 upliftingriverswater 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 strugglemindpeople Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. B.K.S. Iyengar discriminationbodymind Yoga is a means and an end. B.K.S. Iyengar yogainspiringmean The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges. B.K.S. Iyengar asanagainschallenges Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light. B.K.S. Iyengar lightbrainheart 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 yogaspiritualexercise As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. B.K.S. Iyengar branchesyogamay Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. B.K.S. Iyengar symmetricalyogaart Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking. B.K.S. Iyengar anxietyworrythinking To master fear is the most important battle to win. B.K.S. Iyengar battleimportantwinning
