Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself…

- Erich Schiffmann

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

- Erich Schiffmann

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

- Erich Schiffmann

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

- Erich Schiffmann

When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what re…

- Erich Schiffmann

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually …

- Erich Schiffmann

Experience yourself in silence.

- Erich Schiffmann

What you're thinking about is what you are being.

- Erich Schiffmann

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates …

- Erich Schiffmann