Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).

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.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Everybody makes his path differently.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

Governments are not always right.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.