“Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.”

Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak, but of the strong.