I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition