The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.

Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.