Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.