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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.
Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
The beautiful thing about calling out to your Lord is that you don't always have to put your feelings into words
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.
Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.
Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.