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"When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'"
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
"Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible."
"Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom."
"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."
"Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun."
"Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."
"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
"Truth is one, paths are many."
"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."
"Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within."
"Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core."
"Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body."
"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
"Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious."
"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."