Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.
Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.
There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.
If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.