When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

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.

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Where does the story end? That's what it's all about. It's what we all want to know.

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

A genuinely humble person humbles himself even before those who should be humbled by his presence.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.