Gary Kraftsow Quotes

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.

It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick.

My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.

You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm still trying to figure it out.

There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].

I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.