“Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”

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

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

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.

I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I’m taking things too seriously, or the person I’m talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn’t matter what we’re doing or talking about, it doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She’s gorgeous, she’s smart, and she really takes care of herself.