We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.