We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

Finally! You're here!"Uh....Do I know you?"Well, no....But you're here, all the same...

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.