Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

If you are being judgemental, that is non-yogic.

Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.

Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

Becoming a victim is your choice.

What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

If it is easy, something's wrong.

But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

God’s intention is that everything that has breath would praise him

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!