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What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto!


Arika Okrent


#esperanto #injustice #yoga-practice #yoga

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.


Osho


#mind #soul #thinking #yoga #yoga

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn’t break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we’re doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we’re angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we’re calm or unhurried? Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who’s actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn’t happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated.


H.E. Davey


#ki #meditation #mind #mind-and-body-unification #nakamura-tempu

These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115)


Swami Satchidananda


#ignorance #pain #yoga-sutra #yoga

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)


Prem Prakash


#finite #infinite #yoga

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.


Leza Lowitz


#poetry #yoga #yoga

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.


H.E. Davey


#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)


Swami Satchidananda


#seeing #yoga

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.


Sri Aurobindo


#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.


Vinoba Bhave


#different #heart #karma #names #same