The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

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.

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn't had one in a while, though, and I'd forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.