Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.
I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.
Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.