There is explosive power in virtue.
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.
There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.
If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.
[People] want to see our veterans taken care of, because they are not, they are being absolutely mistreated. There are many things they want to see. There are many points of anger in this country.