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Quotes about World by B.k.s. Iyengar

  • If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
  • When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
  • A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
  • When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
  • Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
  • The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.
  • Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
  • The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.