There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Try this now. If you can't do it, you can do Headstand instead. If you don't want to do that, go home!

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Human beings are Earthlings and as Earthlings are connected to every other living being on this planet.

By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

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