To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

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.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.