Experience

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
How foolish jealousy is! It kills the very thing it professes to love. Jealousy is self-love. If a man loves a woman truly, he will not be able to bring himself to destroy her happiness and love for him by taking her life and thus letting her go to the beyond filled with loathing for him that may last for incarnations.
Love will win where jealousy will surely fail. If love cannot be the savior of a wrecked marriage relationship, it is folly to bring in the demon of jealousy, which might ruin both partners.
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be.
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
The Vedanta recognises no sin it only recognises error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.