B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

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