B K Amplifiers Quotes

You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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

There is safety in learning doctrine in gatherings which are sponsored by proper authority. Some members, even some who have made covenants in the temple, are associating with groups of one kind or another which have an element of secrecy about them and which pretend to have some higher source of inspiration concerning the fulfillment of prophecies than do ward or stake leaders or the General Authorities of the Church. Know this: There are counterfeit revelations which, we are warned, "if possible . . . shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant." (JS - M 1:22.) . . .

For the past several years we have watched patterns of reverence and irreverence in the Church. While many are to be highly commended, we are drifting. We have reason to be deeply concerned.

The world grows increasingly noisy. Clothing and grooming and conduct are looser and sloppier and more disheveled. Raucous music, with obscene lyrics blasted through amplifiers while lights flash psychedelic colors, characterizes the drug culture. Variations of these things are gaining wide acceptance and influence over our youth. . . .

This trend to more noise, more excitement, more contention, less restraint, less dignity, less formality is not coincidental nor innocent nor harmless.

The first order issued by a commander mounting a military invasion is the jamming of the channels of communication of those he intends to conquer.

Irreverenc ~ Boyd K. Packer

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one's hand. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread" - Chinese Proverb JIGGS ~ B.K. Froman

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

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

Asana has two facets, pose and repose. Pose is the artistic assumption of a position. 'Reposing in the pose' means finding the perfection of a pose and maintaining it, reflecting in it with penetration of the intelligence and with dedication. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do. ~ 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

First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time. ~ 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

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop. ~ 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

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

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

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being. ~ 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

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Meditation is oneness, when there is no longer time, sex, or country. The moment when, after you have concentrated on doing a pose (or anything else) perfectly, you hold it and then forget everything, not because you want to forget but because you are concentrated: this is meditation. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar