“Learning is as much an art as teaching”

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

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

Be inspired but not proud.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

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.

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!