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

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.

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.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.