Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

Action is movement with intelligence

You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.