B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes about Yoga - Page 2

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

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.

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.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

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

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

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

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

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

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

There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.

Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

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

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.