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Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

Enrichment only comes through purification.

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

Eternity does nothing but give.

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.

Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.

Everyone is part of you.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.

Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga...it's about trusting that you will find your way.

Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Fix your awareness gently on the center of your chest. Try to feel love.

Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.

God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry

Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.