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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.
You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.
What you eat affects you physically as well as other beings you share this planet with.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.
A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.
I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.
The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.
If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.
People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!