Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Meditation is oneness, when there is no longer time, sex, or country. The moment when, after you have concentrated on doing a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“If citta is the sea, its movements (vrttis) are the ripples. Body, mind and consciousness are in communion with the soul; they… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
