Quotes from B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

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.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

It is never too late in life to practice yoga

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

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

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.

It is Einstein's famous equation E=MC^2, in which E is energy (rajas), M is mass (tamas), and C is the speed of light (sattva). Energy, mass, and light are endlessly bound together in the universe.

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.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

A fusion of nature and soul.

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.