You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

One's spiritual realisation lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God.

Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.

Yoga is a means and an end.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquillity and joy.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train that child.

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

A stable mind is like a hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.