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

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.

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

Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Whatever you are, do not even assume that you will be surrounded and gnawed by luxurious worms of an exquisite breed.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.