Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.