To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].