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

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

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.

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Facing facts is always empowering.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

Love and say it with your life.