“You can’t teach a hunter it’s wrong to kill.”

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant’s back.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

As soon as a person starts thinking, ‘I want to be a better person,’ that is the start of Yoga.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

Tapas is not a penance, it’s a mental training to develop will power

We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!

The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.