Move from the known to the unknown.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

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.

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

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.