When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

Yoga is a means and an end.

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

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.