Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.