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

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.

We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

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

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

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

Filthy language is used by people who don’t have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person’s opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.