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Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

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!

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

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.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

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

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

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

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

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.