It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

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.

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.