Quotes from T. K. V. Desikachar

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.

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.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.