"If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing."
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"Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline."
"When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed."
"Remain open to as much input as possible."
"Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment."
"When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease."
"Differentiation is how ONE becomes many while remaining ONE. Differentiation is not separation."
"The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity."
"Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't."
"Curving back within myself I create the world around me."
"...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should."
"When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource."
"My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides."
"I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine."
"So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly."
"You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway."
"All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome."
"Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain."
"Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it."
"I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty."