B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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.
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
