It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

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

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree