Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

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.

When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.