The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.

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

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.

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.

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

We unfortunately are conditioned at a very young age, "You have to do this to be loved." That's why I put in the children. You have to open them up early, encourage them, and listen to them.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

Animals are just as important as we are.