Yoga is a means and an end.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

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

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

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.

Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.