B.K.S. Iyengar
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.Collection: Rise Above
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.Collection: Challenges
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.Collection: Flower
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.Collection: Inspiring
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.Collection: Thinking
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.Collection: Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in EternityCollection: Balance
Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.Collection: Inspiring
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soulCollection: Soul
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.Collection: Success
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.Collection: Motivational
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.Collection: Inspiring
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.Collection: Health
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.Collection: Mind
Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.Collection: Inspiring
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.Collection: Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.Collection: Armpits
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.Collection: Inspiring
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.Collection: Balance
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.Collection: Inspiring
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.Collection: Celebration
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Lakes
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.Collection: Sunlight
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates powerCollection: Humility
Breath is the king of mind.Collection: Inspiring
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.Collection: Rays
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.Collection: Kings
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.Collection: Song
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.Collection: Mind
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.Collection: Yoga
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.Collection: Inspiring
You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.Collection: Moving
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.Collection: Life
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.Collection: Moving
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.Collection: Life
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?Collection: Mind
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.Collection: Inspiring
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.Collection: Maturity
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.Collection: Inspiring
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!Collection: Giving Up
Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.Collection: Honesty
Intensity is a mental attitude more than a physical attitude. Many people misunderstand what intensity means. They think it means straining and sweating. No! That is a wrong meaning of the word! Intensity is to get totally involved, fully immersed and absorbed in what one is doing. Intense practice means a fast and keen mode in adjusting, correcting, and progressively proceeding.Collection: Attitude
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.Collection: Yoga
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.Collection: Inspiring
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.Collection: Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.Collection: Brain
Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.Collection: Pain