T.K.V. Desikachar Quotes

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

The way he would communicate, the way he made you feel was that you were so important, creating the feeling of wanting you to be healthier.

Taking an intelligent approach means working toward your goal step by step.

The mind, which is subject to change, and the Perceiver, which is not, are in proximity but are of distinct and different characters. When the mind is directed externally and acts mechanically toward objects there is either pleasure or pain. When at the appropriate time, however, an individual begins inquiry into the very nature of the link between the Perceiver and perception the mind is disconnected from external objects and there arises the understanding of the Perceiver itself.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

In 1939 and 1940, Krishnamacharya was visited by a French medical team who wanted to verify that an experienced yogi could deliberately stop his heartbeat. For Śrī Krishnamacharya, this muchmarvelled-at examination was a rather bothersome demonstration, one that he undertook out of feeling responsible to validate yoga in the eyes of the skeptical scientific world.