Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.