“When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.”

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

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

Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

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

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

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.

Learning is as much an art as teaching

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Breath is the king of mind.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.