Feuerstein Quotes & Sayings

I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has ... served me so well with women in my life. — Mark Feuerstein

The postures are only the "skin" of yoga. Hidden behind them are the "flesh and blood" of breath control and mental techniques that are still more difficult to learn, as well as moral practices that require a lifetime of consistent application and that correspond to the skeletal structure of the body. The higher practices of concentration, meditation and unitive ecstasy(samadhi) are analogous to the circulatory and nervous system." Georg Feuerstein The Deeper Dimension of Yoga — Georg Feuerstein

I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more. — Aaron Feuerstein

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses. — Reuven Feuerstein

Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes — Azriel Feuerstein

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day? — Mark Feuerstein

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind. — Georg Feuerstein

Attitudes are enduring tendencies in your mind that show themselves in your behavior as well as your speech. Yoga encourages you to examine all your basic attitudes toward life to discover which ones are dysfunctional so that you can replace them with more appropriate ones. — Georg Feuerstein

Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define. — Georg Feuerstein

To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble. — Mark Feuerstein

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure. — Mark Feuerstein

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due. — Mark Feuerstein

For those pure in mind, everything is pure. — Georg Feuerstein

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself. — Georg Feuerstein

The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path. — Georg Feuerstein

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it. — Aaron Feuerstein

The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga." (Aurobindo 1976, 4) — Georg Feuerstein

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons. — Mark Feuerstein

In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." - B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15 — Georg Feuerstein

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves. — Reuven Feuerstein

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me. — Mark Feuerstein

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd. — Mark Feuerstein

Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment. — Georg Feuerstein

A disharmonious mind is disturbing in itself, but sooner or later it also causes physical problems. — Georg Feuerstein

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria. — Mark Feuerstein

To have a "light-bulb moment", the power has to be on. — Jennifer L. Feuerstein

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. — Georg Feuerstein

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation — Georg Feuerstein

I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.' — Mark Feuerstein

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back. — Mark Feuerstein

There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great actor, good work,' and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say 'You were awesome on 'The West Wing,' 'Loved 'In Her Shoes,' great movie,' 'What Women Want,' good job dude.' — Mark Feuerstein

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all. — Georg Feuerstein

If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization ... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts ... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation. — Georg Feuerstein

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog. — Mark Feuerstein

Those of us directed towards the right were lined up in threes with much shooting and beating. I was in the first row, at the platform's edge. Suddenly, we see a group of older women and women with children nearing the road, under the platform. In the first row I see my mother supported on both sides by two friends. She too becomes aware of me. And out of the throat of this reticent, soft-spoken woman who I don't remember ever raising her voice, breaks out a terrible, desperate, piercingly loud, howling shout: 'GYURIKA!!! — Azriel Feuerstein

Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls. — Aaron Feuerstein