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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
To be dull is easy,
to be active requires
tremendous work. — B.K.S. Iyengar
to be active requires
tremendous work. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine spirit which lives through the body.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you,
— B.K.S. Iyengar
What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
To master fear is the most important battle to win.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and ... grace ... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's problems and challenges.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is a means and an end.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like the clouds which are spreading in the sky.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul ...
— B.K.S. Iyengar
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment. — B.K.S. Iyengar
That is contentment. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Your body is the child of your soul.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Move from the known to the unknown.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
— B.K.S. Iyengar
If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
— B.K.S. Iyengar
The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
— B.K.S. Iyengar