Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.