Michael Roach > Quotes

“Everything is a reflection of the condition of your own heart ... And so looking at the world is like looking in a funny kind of mirror”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a belief prevalent in America and other Western countries that being successful, making money, is somehow wrong for people who are trying to lead a spiritual life. In Buddhism though it is not the money which is in itself wrong; in fact, a person with greater resources can do much more good in the world than the one without. The question rather is how we make the money; whether we understand where it comes from and how to make it continue to come; and whether we keep a healthy attitude about the money.”
― Geshe Michael Roach

“Is this flesh - born only to die; or is it pure and loving light?”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“If we do something just to help ourselves, it will never work. You can never really put effort into a thing if it's only for yourself. It has to be for something bigger.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“It doesn't matter that we are inside a jail. Everyone is inside a jail. We need to get out of the bigger jail: this entire life, this life that always leads to death and ruin.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“It takes so much courage just to start”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“I’m going to die tonight. What would be the best thing to do with the rest of my time?”
― Michael Roach, The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life

“The Diamond Cutter is the oldest dated book in the world that was printed, rather than being written out by hand. The British Museum holds a copy that is dated A.D. 868, or about 600 years before the Gutenberg Bible was produced.”
― Michael Roach, The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life

“Are they dead, and gone forever; or do they stand at your side, waiting to be seen, waiting until you learn to see them, be with them, be them?”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“The most precious things in the world have no value to the world.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“You see, with yoga as we’ve talked about it, this regular modest daily practice causes very profound changes at the level of the channels and the inner winds. And that has a matching effect on the thoughts and attitudes themselves. Any person who just keeps this up steadily, a little each day, just naturally begins to avoid these bad habits—because these simply don’t fit any more into who they are. And then one day they just naturally drop the habit completely: no big announcements or resolutions. They may not even notice.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“Your practice must be done correctly,
For then a firm foundation is laid.”
― Geshe Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“the door to my cell. He looked down at me with those red”
― Geshe Michael Roach, How Yoga Works