# Quote — B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

> 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…

- Author: [B.K.S. Iyengar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar.md)
- Book: [Light on Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life.md)
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> Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

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> 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.

p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life/breath-is-the.md)

> 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/

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life/yoga-is-like.md)