Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.

Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.