What I say is focus your mind and respect your body. But mostly love your heart. I think that is where to begin, from there and then it goes out.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.

I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.