black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Discipline Doubt Give Up
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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Big God Inspiring Know
Learning is as much an art as teaching
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Art Learn Teaching
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Animal Essence Stars
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Greed Letting Go Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Force Nothing Receptivity
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Flower Yield Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Garden Weed Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Doe Way Yoga
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

Artist Inspiring Practice
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Want Yoga Yoga Practice
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Active Dull Easy
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
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Aim Awareness Yoga

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes