The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

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

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

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

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

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

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

It is not enough to have intuitions we must act on them we must live them.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

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