It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

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.

The world is a prison for the believer and paradise for a non-believer.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

I think I'm highly loveable.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!

I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.