“Love is not different from truth. Love is that state in which the thought process, as time, has completely ceased. Where love is, there is transformation. Without love, revolution has no meaning, for the revolution is merely destruction, decay, a greater and greater ever-mounting mystery. Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.”
— J. Krishnamurti

“I had this storage shed for about two years, and every month I would write the rent check. It would disturb me, because I was writing a rent check for a storage shed, and I didn't even know what was in it anymore. The thought of renting a truck, going over there, digging all of the stuff out, looking through the boxes, figuring out what to do with it was so bad that I would just mail the rent check. The next month, I would go through the whole process again.

One day, I rented a truck. I took the boxes unopened and put them in the back of the truck. I drove to the dump and pushed the boxes out. To this day I don’t know what I got rid of, but I haven’t missed it. If I hadn’t need it in two years, I wasn’t going to need it again. Maybe I threw out some good stuff, but that was all I could handle at that point in time. It’s a great metaphor for yoga. Just let it go. You don’t have to pull it all out of the boxes and figure it all out. You can just toss it. Who are you if you don’t own all that stuff? Yoga says you’re free.”
—Rama Berch as interviewed in
Yogi Bare: Naked Truth from America’s Leading Yoga Teachers

“[As a yoga teacher] I just wanted to try to be myself. I wanted to communicate the essence of yoga is one’s own divinity, but I could never come out and say, point blank, ‘Find out who you are. Ask yourself the most important question of your life, ‘Who am I?’ ’
          I learned that if you share who you are with people, it will naturally help them reflect on who they are. A lot of the television show was sharing my own experience, but the postures, the breathing, and the relaxation was woven through it. The underlying message was, ‘Know thyself,’ and the importance of universal love. If you are loving with no strings attached, even through the medium of television, people can feel it. I have had countless letters from people saying, ‘I can feel your caring.’ Human beings will bloom if you come from that place inside yourself. You don’t have to say anything, but if you come from the core of universal love, everything else will follow. It has taken years for me to understand that.”
— Lilias Folan as interviewed in
Yogi Bare: Naked Truth from America’s Leading Yoga Teachers