Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past. That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past. Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress. Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.

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

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.