Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.

The hardest part of any yoga practice is rolling out your mat.

When infused with compassion, even the most useless snake oils have the power to heal broken hearts and shattered souls.

The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.

The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.

Instead of asking, “How can I ease my suffering?” yoga would have us ask, “How can I better serve my brothers and sisters?” Because only in answering the latter can we hope to answer the former.

Standing at the end of a diving board looking at the water never made the water warmer, but it will make taking the plunge unnecessarily hard.

Sculpting the future and healing the past can only happen through mindful action in the present moment.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

There is a relentless war between good and evil which has to be fought whether one likes it or not.

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

If you love the things you do, you don’t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.