Purpose

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be, as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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.
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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.
Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous attitude - it doesn't respond to a half-dead will! Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you. Then, as you perform your daily activities, you will see that a flood of vitality will move through all your muscles and through your [continue reading...]
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. This is the way to success.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.