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.

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

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.

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

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.

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

I went my direction, my direction is whatever I want to go.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.