“It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?”

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

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.

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.

Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.