Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).

Earth girls aren’t easy.

Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.