“Spiritual practice lives at the corner of self-respect and self-discipline.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“A Kula or spiritual community is like a nudist camp for the soul. Not only are we given the permission to remove… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“True spiritual virtues can have no opposite, but they can wear masks and costumes. Joy often masquerades as anger; innocence often dresses… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the bedrock of all spiritual practice. With mindfulness, the simple becomes profound, and the common becomes extraordinary. Without mindfulness, even… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Jesus wisely counseled his followers to search for the kingdom of heaven within themselves; but to go within, one needs a door,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“This life is a dream—sometimes a dream of beauty— sometimes a terrifying nightmare. We will all wake from this dream eventually. Spiritual… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Praying for peace is wonderful; meditations on loving kindness and compassion are sublime; acts of generosity and healing have the power to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“A gardener cannot make a seed grow. She can simply create the conditions for growth to occur and then patiently wait. A… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“While religions and mystical traditions attempt to address the same spiritual questions with which all human beings wrestle, a religious person demands… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“All suffering in this world is a result of someone, somewhere, not living his or her life’s purpose. Through spiritual practice, your… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Do numbers hold spiritual significance? Perhaps they do. For me, the most powerful numbers are two and six because when you multiply… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Yoga and meditation help us to achieve physical health, emotional balance, more connected relationships, and a more satisfying life. But to measure… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the body is the temple of the spirit and the mind is the altar within that temple.… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“The great spiritual tension between the contemplative life of the monk and spiritual activism in the world dissolves entirely with one word—namaste:… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Evolution is messy. Oftentimes our brains evolve more quickly than our capacity to love. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“What I can tell you is that yoga is about removing the muck by shining the light of awareness on it. That is why… — Darren Main Copy Share
“Each time we come to savasana, we practice dying—we surrender the body to the earth and prepare for our destiny in this life. Facing… — Darren Main Copy Share
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until he is… — Darren Main Copy Share
“Attachment is the act of trying to control, manipulate, or sculpt the outside world in such a way that we lose sight of our… — Darren Main Copy Share
“Most people spend years trying to feng shui their lives—to decorate and reorganize life in such a way that order and peace will finally… — Darren Main Copy Share
“Yoga gives you the freedom to choose, but it does not guarantee you will choose freedom.” — Darren Main Copy Share
“Guilt is like tarnish on a piece of silver. It effectively obscures beauty and radiance, but can never lessen its true value. Just as… — Darren Main Copy Share
“The miracle of yoga is not that we get to reshape the external world—to bend the laws of time and space. The miracle of… — Darren Main Copy Share
“Standing at the end of a diving board looking at the water never made the water warmer, but it will make taking the plunge… — Darren Main Copy Share
“What is it to succeed in yoga? Success in yoga means finding the smile buried deep beneath the pain and discomfort of any moment.… — Darren Main Copy Share
“It is easy to make the mistake of thinking yoga is about touching your toes when in fact yoga is about learning to touch… — Darren Main Copy Share
“To a yogi, the breath is the anchor that keeps the mind in the eternal now. Just as an anchored boat still shifts with… — Darren Main Copy Share
“A mud pie is, at the end of the day, attractively packaged mud. A life spent in pursuit of comfort and leisure—of being a… — Darren Main Copy Share
“There is a need somewhere in this world that only your dharma, fully expressed, can fulfill. The reason there is such overwhelming need in… — Darren Main Copy Share
“In most forms of exercise one’s breath follows the movement—the faster and harder you work, the faster and harder you will breathe. In yoga,… — Darren Main Copy Share
