As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.

When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness; it should make you a happier person.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

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