We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

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

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

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

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.