In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction.

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

I have recently decided that there is no place in my head or my heart for fear anymore.

It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

People come and go in this lifetime. Some merely pass us by. Some stay with us for a little while. Some leave as quickly as they come. However, when real friends come, they stay and never leave.

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.