The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Join my dreams, I will bring you a trip to paradise.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.