By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Evolution is the reverberation of God's creative voice.

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

I don't believe in the landscape.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so