Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Yoga helps us differentiate between what we can change and what we must accept.
This quote highlights a central tenet of yoga philosophy, emphasizing the importance of awareness and acceptance in our lives. It suggests that through practice, we can learn to alleviate unnecessary suffering while developing the resilience to face challenges beyond our control.
Themes
YogaAcceptanceResilienceMindfulnessAwareness
In practice
Example use cases
In a wellness workshop to emphasize the importance of mental health.
More from B.K.S. Iyengar
All quotes βHard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
Similar quotes
Dangerously wellββ what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling βtoo well
Oliver SacksRead
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan PoeRead
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will DurantRead
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
John HerseyRead
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann HesseRead