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True transformation in a yoga practice comes from doing the poses we resist, while at the same time working to change the mind about the experience. Relationships are no different.
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just … come out the other side.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.”
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
― Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
“dreams are the psyche’s way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who don’t dream—or don’t dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up—are mentally constipated in some way. After all, the only practical compensation for having a nightmare is waking up and realizing it was all just a dream.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Life is like a sticky mat; each circumstance in which we find ourselves is like a pose. Some poses are hard to hold; others are pleasant. But it is how we hold the pose that determines whether or not we will suffer or grow, and whether or not we will listen to the drama of the ego or the wisdom of our Spirit.”
― Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic
― Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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