The practice of yoga certainly is a fantastic practice. I only wish I would do it more. I find I can do it alone but it is much better if I have some guidance. Although I can do it alone it is a little bit sloppy. Ultimately, all of those techniques try to bring more oxygen to the brain. We can think and love better if we have more oxygen.
If you love your heart, this can be transmitted to other people. I mean you can help anybody that wants to do the same.
The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.
I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.
As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.
Yoga is a natural thing.
Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.
For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.
One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.
Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.
You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.
Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.
the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.