black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Values Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Awareness Moving Way
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Health Mind Soul
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Interpreted One Reality Way
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Balance Differences Moving
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

Broken Inspiring Yoga
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
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
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Essence Order Yoga

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes