black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

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

Journey Mean Soul
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

Asana Challenges Gains
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
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Party Two
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mind Soul Training
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Heart Intellectual Mind
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Discrimination Men Real
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Eternity Present
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Brain Children Play
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Effort Practice Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Differences Mind Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Cells Song 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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes