For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
You don’t really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don’t really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be relevant.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Some people don’t understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.
I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
It’s so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It’s really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.