Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

Regarding perfection, that's a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in it, and my mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens... My body is a laboratory, you can say. 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.

How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

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.