Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

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.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.