black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

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

Long Perfect Thinking
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Symmetrical Yoga
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Light Special Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Mind Realization
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Celebration Dies Lively
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Moving Wind
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Dormant Pain Sorrow
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Block Flow Mind
Learning is as much an art as teaching
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Learn Teaching
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

Keys Pain Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspired Inspiring Proud
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mistake Trying Way
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Practice Understanding Yesterday
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Effort Practice Yoga
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

Illumination Journey Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Issues Keys Progress

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes