Top 250 B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

102. “Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

103. “If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

104. “In each pose there should be repose.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

105. “The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

106. “Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

107. “From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

108. “Yoga releases the creative potential in life.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

109. “Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

110. “A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

111. “The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

112. “Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

113. “The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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

— B.K.S. Iyengar

115. “Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

116. “Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

117. “Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

118. “The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

119. “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

120. “Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

121. “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.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

122. “Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

123. “You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

124. “To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

125. “Do not live in the future, only the present is real.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

126. “Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

127. “Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

128. “There must be relaxation in full extension.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

129. “All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

130. “Action is movement with intelligence.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

131. “Your body is the child of your soul.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

132. “In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

133. “In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

134. “As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

135. “In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work – let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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

— B.K.S. Iyengar

137. “A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

138. “The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

139. “Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

140. “Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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

— B.K.S. Iyengar

142. “Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

143. “There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

144. “Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

145. “Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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

— B.K.S. Iyengar

147. “We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

148. “Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

149. “Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

150. “The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar