When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

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.

All is a forever.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.