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

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.