black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Mind Past
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Children Inspiring Soul
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Blow Self Wind
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Mind Need Sound
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Nervous Nervous System
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Kings Reason
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Little Things Littles Thinking
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Attitude Skills Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Needs Spirit
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Eternity Present
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
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

Goal Inspiring Spirituality
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Breathing Hands Horse
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

End Ignorance Knowledge

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes