The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)