During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.