“The whole system that we live in drills into us that we’re powerless, that we’re weak, that our society is evil, that it’s fraudulent, and so forth. It’s all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we cannot understand who we truly are, where we are going. There [...]

“Mental happiness is nothing but total relaxation.” —Yogi Bhajan

[Substitute "yoga practice" for "walk" throughout.] In the days when I thought a walk was just exercise, the ideas did not come until the end. “It is only in walks that are a little too long, that one has any new ideas,” I find that I wrote in my diary. I now understand this. It [...]

…as Baryshnikov explains it, what made Pushkin [his revered teacher] so effective was the logic of the step combinations he taught — the fact that they were true not just to classical ballet but also to human musculature. They seemed right to the body, and so you did them right. And the more you did [...]

“Karma is the trouble you make for yourself by being nervous and worried, and by trying to do what you think is right. … as soon as you don’t care so much — or when you get interested in everything equally — things loosen up and start to happen. This is very un-Freudian.” — James [...]

“To live a long and healthy life — develop a chronic disease and take care of it.” —Sir William Osler

“Before you learn to stand on your head, you need to learn to stand on your own two feet.” —Swami Satchidananda

“The basic unit of you is equal to your radiance plus your activity. That radiance is the mind and the activity is the gross.” —Yogi Bhajan