“Yoga was my Destiny, and for the past seventy years, yoga has been my life, a life fused with the practice, philosophy, and teaching of the art of yoga. Like all destinies, like all great adventures, I have gone to places I have imagined before I set out. For me It has been a journey of discovery.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xi

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Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

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“Ahhh. Samadhi.
Yoga is Samadhi.
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That's all.”

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Quoted in Sharon Gannon and David Life, Jivamukti Yoga, Ballantine Books, 2002, p. 37 http://books.google.it/books?id=D_9oFtc1ZLMC&pg=PA37.

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