I tweet because it allows me to say anything I want and sometimes people respond.
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)
Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)
It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.
Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.
You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.
We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.
Attraction is not a choice.
My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.