Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

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.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Until you feel that you achieved, you are a Endless Achiever

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

No one can crave what truly harms him.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.