Explore Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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.

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

Do not live in the future, only the present is real

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

To be dull is easy, _x000D_ to be active requires _x000D_ tremendous work.

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

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?