As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

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

People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.