We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

Welcome to your body.

Be gentle with everything in your life.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

In embracing your difficulties is liberation.

The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims—swallowed by the sea of greed.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.