One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

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.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.