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When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.

When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want.

When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.

When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.

When the Kundalini crosses the Agnya, you become thoughtlessly aware. Thoughtlessly aware means, you are aware but there is no thought. You become silent. When it crosses the brahmarandra then the vibrations start flowing through you, and you get cool vibrations.

When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.

When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.

When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.

When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.

When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.

When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with. And secondly, you forgive what you think has been done wrong to you. But because nothing wrong can be done to your spirit, you just forgive because you are the spirit. And when you forgive, you have found that your tension goes away.

When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

When you love, you should always watch the quality of your love.

When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.

When you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away.

When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once.

Wisdom comes only with innocence.

Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.

Without holiness you cannot talk of God.

Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

With my crazy schedule, that often means cutting into my sleep. But yoga gives me the energy and focus I need to get through my day. I'm not saying I don't need a cup of coffee in the afternoon sometimes, but it's the yoga that definitely keeps me centered.