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“We didn’t want to look good. We wanted to be good.”
Claire is a new mom, a wife, and a writer and she is so close to having a nervous breakdown that you can see her shaking hand on every page of this typewritten manuscript. She takes up yoga in the midst of her crazy life and somehow yoga saves her.
“I had a sudden thought: What if the opposite of good wasn’t bad? What if the opposite of good was real?”
“I had started going to yoga because I wanted other people to admire my goodness. I came to yo ...more
Claire is a new mom, a wife, and a writer and she is so close to having a nervous breakdown that you can see her shaking hand on every page of this typewritten manuscript. She takes up yoga in the midst of her crazy life and somehow yoga saves her.
“I had a sudden thought: What if the opposite of good wasn’t bad? What if the opposite of good was real?”
“I had started going to yoga because I wanted other people to admire my goodness. I came to yo ...more
I still prefer Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère,but that could be my male sensibilities.
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There were a few nuggets of wisdom, interspersed with many disjointed parts...
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