Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind. The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

To think that I am this waking body and mind, this person, is an error based on ignorance of Turiya, my real Self … You think of yourself as this person—this seems to be the indubitable truth for us. What Vedanta claims is if you investigate in this method of the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, you will come across the real you—not this person but the witness of this person, the Turiya in which this person is arising, shining, and falling again.

Ma, what am I to do - there is no eye that can follow me. No one knows me, no one understands me. What am I to do? (Said four days before He left His body)

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

If you feel pain (during the Kriya practice) in the body, then understand that the practice is not going well.

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

You recharge your body and mind in prayer and meditation. All of your actions in this world should be done with that inner consciousness.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

The form of this body is with us to make this creation more beautiful and divine. The body is with us for our evolution.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have never been other than that. You are only dreaming due to the idea of 'I am the body.'

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

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. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

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

The breath is a bridge between body and mind.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is imminent, what can you do?