If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Alas. I am not an option.

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.