Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

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

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.