"The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths."

-- Barry H. Gillespie

"As we work, we use the form as a guide. It is something we work with, not something you learn to show off.
The form is a process that serves you, not an adornment you bring back to hang on your wall."

-- Chungliang Al Huang

"With asana I felt there was a desire to create perfect lines that I question in their straightness. Why if our bodies are so rounded, and our muscles wrap around everything so fluidly, why the attention and determination to become a straight line? It felt like something was crooked. Something was not serving the way my body is."

--  Andréa de Keijzer 
from a conversation with Matthew Remski.

Straight? What’s straight? A line can be straight, or a street…but the heart of a human being? 

--Tennessee Williams from A Streetcar Named Desire