Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

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.

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.

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

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.