This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

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.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.