Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.

Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.