“We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.”

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.

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.

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

Live like the Kennedy’s, above the law.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

As we were told, was presented to him in golden cups… I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

So he’s above the law because he’s a celebrity or something. Just because you’re Russell Crowe doesn’t mean you can do whatever you like.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.