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

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

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

The pose begins when you want to leave it.

Your body is the child of your soul.

People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.