The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

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.

say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

And strange-eyed constellations reignHis stars eternally.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.