In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

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

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.