I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

Plant the seeds of gratitude to grow and enjoy the abundance of life.

God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me

You mean you’re not God? Nooo, say it isn’t so!

Science demands patience.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.