The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.