We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

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.

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.