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When you lie about yourself, is it to appear closer to or farther away from the middle of the bell curve? — Sheena Iyengar

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The pose begins when you want to leave it. — B.K.S. Iyengar

To be dull is easy,
to be active requires
tremendous work. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within. — B.K.S. Iyengar

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break. — B.K.S. Iyengar

We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only. — Geeta Iyengar

A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser's dream. — Sheena Iyengar

I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't ... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda ... — Sheena Iyengar

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar

I went home and they seemed ... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something. — Sheena Iyengar

Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item. — Sheena Iyengar

One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Where there is yoga,
there is prosperity,
success, freedom and bliss. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat. — B.K.S. Iyengar

If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you. — B.K.S. Iyengar

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar

How much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had — Sheena Iyengar

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. — B.K.S. Iyengar

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. — Geeta Iyengar

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it. — B.K.S. Iyengar

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is a means and an end. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice. — B.K.S. Iyengar

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom! — B.K.S. Iyengar

Approach each asana with freshness every day. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste. — Sheena Iyengar

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

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine spirit which lives through the body. — B.K.S. Iyengar

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive. — B.K.S. Iyengar

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body — B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you, — B.K.S. Iyengar

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends. — B.K.S. Iyengar

What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice. — Sheena Iyengar

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer. — Sheena Iyengar

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. — B.K.S. Iyengar

We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Personal happiness is always a very serious matter. — Sheena Iyengar

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul — B.K.S. Iyengar

Your body is the child of your soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Stirred with passion, steamed with love, laced with humor and served with a smile. On the road. No sugar. No milk. Horn OK Please *Smack!!* — Kartik Iyengar

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

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like the clouds which are spreading in the sky. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

It is never too late in life to practice yoga — B.K.S. Iyengar

If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses — B.K.S. Iyengar

Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active — B.K.S. Iyengar

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana. — B.K.S. Iyengar

We tend to have a knee-jerk negative response to anything that seems to want or have control over us. — Sheena Iyengar

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us. — B.K.S. Iyengar

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture. — Sheena Iyengar

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation. — B.K.S. Iyengar

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul — B.K.S. Iyengar

The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom. — Geeta Iyengar

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Move from the known to the unknown. — B.K.S. Iyengar

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible. — Geeta Iyengar

In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first! — B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul ... — B.K.S. Iyengar

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. — Sheena Iyengar

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar