People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx. . . why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.
Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.
Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.