"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.