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Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.
I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.
Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.
If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.
You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.
Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.
So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.
Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing.
Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.