You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. This
You don't have to live like this because people tell you it's the only way. You're not handcuffed to your culture!
You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as se...
You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.
You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
Yoga, in Sanskrit, can be translated as union. It originally comes from the root word yuj, which means to yoke, to attach yourself to a task at hand with ox-like discipline. And the task at hand in yo...
Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student..
Yet I can tell you that there was a lonely and untenanted corner of my heart that I’d never known was there—and Frank moved right into it. Holding him in my heart made me feel like I belonged to love...
Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepare...
Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?
Who the hell do you think you are? your darkest interior voices will demand. It’s funny you should ask, you can reply. I’ll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a consti...
Which is to say, the Romans didn’t believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius; they believed that an exceptionally gifted person had a genius.
When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them.
When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it wa...
When artists are burdened with the label of genius, I think they lose the ability to take themselves lightly, or to create freely.
When I refer to creative living, I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.
What do you love even more than you love your own ego?
We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its myst...
We are fiddle, fork, and spoon,We are dancing with the moon,If you'd like to steal a kiss from us,You'd better steal one soon!