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

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

Without education, confidence does not come.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

When you do what you want, not what you wish…’ said the first raven. ‘When you no longer seek your reflection in others’ eyes…’ said the second.

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.”

But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part,

There’s a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men… And if you’re in the public eye, to me, it’s very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don’t ever reveal any truth.

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with … G.” “Sausages.

The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They’re not as mature as women. They’re not as connected with their emotions as women…

We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.