When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured

Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks insides, awakes.

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

"In the practice of yoga, one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless."

"Who Am I? I am pure Awareness. This Awareness is by its very nature Being-Consciousness-Bliss"

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for.

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down.

Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

Truth cannot only comfort you. At times, it has to cut through to the bone, to the very marrow even, if this is what it takes to set you free.

Anything that is troubling you, anything which is irritating you… that is your Teacher.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Today, look at every person as an individual manifestation of the one whole Life.​

May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe.

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death release you into real life.

"To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh."

“We’re fascinated by the words - but where we meet is the silence behind them.”

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear, and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

"While praising, may we of strong and steady limb enjoy the life given by the Gods Om Peace, Peace, Peace"

Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied consciousness until you understand that you have to be grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you have, then Mother Nature will give you more.

Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy; then you should sit one hour.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Just allow life to take you wheresoever it leads you and don't be afraid. Fear is the only thing one should be afraid of, nothing else.

Whatever happened, happened for the good, Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good.

Gratitude opens the door to…the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.

"Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun."

What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every feeling. And that cannot come from outside of yourself.

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Fortunately, deep within us, there is a direct connection to the Divine. There is a part of our being that is beyond the personal self. You can consciously choose to identify with that part, rather than with the psyche or the body. When you do this, a natural transformation begins to take place within.

With non-acceptance of unnecessary things, the knowledge emerges of what I was, what I have become, and what I will be.

Accept–then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want Love, do not hide from yourself.

Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

"Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind."

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.

"Yoga is good for man because the physical body improves, the nervous system improves, the mind improves, the intellect improves..."

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

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.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

"Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion."

Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.

If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.

Medicine cures the body, meditation cures your being; it is the inner medicine.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

Ninety-nine percent of your thoughts are a complete waste of time. They do nothing but freak you out.

"Yoga is the process of ending the definitions of the field of consciousness."

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air, and the light.

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace within ourselves."

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

Do your practice and all is coming.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.