We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

Welcome to your body.

Be gentle with everything in your life.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

A road to confidence is a road worth taking.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.