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.

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

The pose begins when you want to leave it.