"Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy."

--

B.K.S. Iyengar

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“We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.”
“I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.”
“Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.”
“I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.”
“I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, Iâ€™m a librarian.”
“It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.”
“Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.”

Source : "The Prayer Of The Body". Interview by Sy Safransky, thesunmagazine.org. October 1992.
“What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

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