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Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.
Communication implies communing, having a shared experience with another, not "talking at" or "talking down to" someone.
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
What could be more physical than what you eat, where you live, and who you live with? These are all very physical issues.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.
I am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.
Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you