"In the efforts to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting...

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only...

Q: What does your heart want most to say to all the yoga students and teachers? T.K.V. Desikachar: My heart wants to say, don’t expect...

In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they rise and float away into the...

There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. you have...

Sometimes I wonder why I keep so much noise in my mind. This morning I reviewed scenarios, thought about smart things to say in class,...

You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it It's...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. This is...

OH, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...

My friend Coral is a vibrant and creative beautiful woman, and I always listened to her advice. One of the things she used to do, when we...

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your...

After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to...

"Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm....The goal of yoga science is to...

This is the poem I have been reading for many years on the Winter Solstice. I learned it by heart when I was a child, and I still love...

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything...

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is...

Don’t run around this world looking for a hole to hide in. There are wild beasts in every cave! If you live with mice, the cat claws will...

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...