B. K. S. Iyengar - Yoga Quotes

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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

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Yoga, as it was understood by its sages, is designed to satisfy all the human needs in a comprehensive, seamless whole. Its goal is nothing less than to attain the integrity of oneness –oneness with ourselves and as a consequence oneness with all that lies beyond ourselves. We become the harmonious microcosm in the universal microcosm. Oneness, what I call integration, is the foundation for wholeness, inner peace, and ultimate freedom.

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Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood

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Yoga ferried me across the great river from the bank of ignorance to the shore of knowledge and wisdom.

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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/

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When I set off in yoga, I had no understanding of the greater glory of yoga. I too was seeking its physical benefits, and it was these that saved my life. When I say that yoga saved my life, I am not exaggerating. It was yoga that gave me a new birth with health from illness and firmness from infirmity.

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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

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I set off in yoga seventy years ago when ridicule, rejection, and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India. Indeed If I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wandering the great trunk roads of British India, begging bowl in hand, I would have met with less derision and won more respect. At one time I was asked to become a sannyasin and renounce the world, but I declined. I wanted to live as an ordinary householder with all the trials and tribulations of life and to take my yoga practice r to average people who share my life with me the common life of work, marriage and children. I was blessed with all three…

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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

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