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If I can go every day of the week, that's great and I'll do it. Usually I can't, so it's about 4 or 5 times a week that I'll go to the gym. I just do cardio and make sure I tone. I love spin class and yoga and I work a lot on my legs and my abs and my arms.

If I enter into your dream and say, "wake up!" If you awaken, then the dream will vanish. We'll be right where we always were and always will be, everywhere and nowhere - eternally perfect, infinite awareness.

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.

If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.

If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.

If they love another, let them love!

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

If they stop loving, be grateful for that.

If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.

If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.

If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.

If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul.

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have faith in God that is the main thing which people don't understand what it means to have faith in God . That He is almighty, He does everything, He looks after everything, why should we worry? This is a very good way of life, is not to worry.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.

If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.

If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

If you really love, then you're willing to step outside of your own love to do that which is right.