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.

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.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

Yoga transformed my life from a parasitic one to a life of purpose. Later yoga inspired me to partake in the joy and nobility of life, which I carried to many thousands of people without consideration of religion, caste, gender, or nationality.

The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion. Both have to work in cooperation with the body.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.

All people are born with different constitutions.Never compare with others.

Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Of the two aspects of asana exertion of our body and penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat

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.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

I set off in yoga seventy years ago when ridicule, rejection and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India. Indeed, if I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wandering the great trunk roads of British India, begging bowl in hand, I would have met with less derision and won more respect. At one time I was asked to become a sannyasin and renounce the world, but I declined. I wanted to live as an ordinary householder with all the trials and tribulations of life and to take my yoga practice r to average people who share my life with me the common life of work, marriage and children. I was blessed with all three…

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