See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

Life is what we are alive to.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.