For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

I’d seen a thousand lifetimes come and go, but had never truly lived.

To be ignorant is to be in the dark

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.