The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.