“I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless. It is not an empty mind.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Source: Ellen Barry "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95"

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Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

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