For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.
I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.
On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.