You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

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

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.