Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.