From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.