What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

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.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

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