I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.