QUOTES FOR YOGINIS, PART I from Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D., much-loved & respected founder of Kundalini Yoga in the West. He says he came here to make teachers, not disciples, and that each student's intuition is their inner teacher - no special initiation or expert required. "The process of self-healing is the privilege of every human being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is it a question of being able to do something that most people can't. Self-healing is a process that occurs through the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul. It is a contract, a union - that is the science of Kundalini Yoga." "Every person, whether Easterner or Westerner, has done the 84 postures of Yoga in the womb of the mother - so you are yogis already!" "To be very honest, if you want to assess society truthfully, woman is not considered to be a full citizen.   Even in marriage men normally do not feel it is a privilege to have a strong woman behind them.   Instead, they relate to her as a servant or a piece of property.... As long as humanity does not learn to respect the woman, there will be no peace on this Earth.  There will be war always. In our society, woman is used as a tool of the advertising industry; her sexuality is exploited to sell... she is being exploited in millions of ways which she doesn't even know about. The most graceful being on this planet is treated disgracefully as a playmate, as a sexual toy. A woman can walk one of two roads: the road of the chick or the road of the eagle... Your only saving factor is to put around yourself the strongest grill of your radiance as a woman.   Let nothing exploit you." "I want women to be strong. I am a believer that when a woman falls, generations fall; when a man falls, an individual falls. Who is doing it to you?  WOMAN is doing to woman. A woman who cannot defend her daughter, a woman who cannot defend her dignity, a woman who cannot defend her self - that is who is doing it." "In a country where woman is insecure, she will give birth to insecure children, which will grow into insecure men and this will make the nation insecure. Security of the woman is the security of the nation." "Only a woman with self-respect can produce saints, warrior-heroes, and givers."