black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Effort Practice Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Gates Soul Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Attention Self Worry
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Active Dull Easy
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Light Shining
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Prayer Standing Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inner Beauty Light Practice
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Kind May Yoga
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
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Mind Practice
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Mean 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
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Important Soul

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes