When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?

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.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Know it from root to fruit

Life is a great gift from God.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.