Sports brings community together.

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

If you are being judgemental, that is non-yogic.

Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.

Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

Becoming a victim is your choice.

What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

If it is easy, something's wrong.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.