Hard
"Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard."
Robert Pirsig
Chaos
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
Nietzsche
Scales
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
Aesop
Place
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."
Robert Pirsig
No Ground
"The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground."
Chogyum Trungpa
Way
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Nietzsche
Zen
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
Alan Watts
Understand?
"We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind, in which understanding may come to us."
Aldous Huxley
Faith
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
Alan Watts
Everyone Has a Pose
"Guruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) had an amazing capacity to peel back the layers of your being and, in his exacting way, pierce you to the core. Once, he suddenly burst out laughing, saying, ” There is a pose to break everyone!” And break us through, he did: our ambition, our puffed-up pride, our laziness and complacency, rending our hearts open."
Sharon Gannon and David Life | Yoga Journal Editors
Lived
"Everything must come from the heart, must be lived."
Pina Bausch
Stop Talking
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
Aesop
Out Of All This
"We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."
Alan Watts
Within
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do Not Really Fail
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else."
Pre
Can’t Deny Denial
"When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied."
D.T. Suzuki
Sutra 1.4
"At other times, when one is not in self-realization, the seer appears to take on the form of the modifications of the mind field, taking on the identity of those thought patterns."
Yoga Sutra 1.4
Teaching Youth
""The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.""
Nietzsche
Coconuts Everywhere
"In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness."
Chogyum Trungpa
Lighten Life
"Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things."
Chogyum Trungpa
Sultras 1.40-1.51
"Caught on the object of the mind, you can see the spilling of true concentration."
My humble short interpretation of the Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51
Technique Becomes Art
"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious."
D.T. Suzuki
Sultra 2.12-2.25
"Ignorance can be defined as our attachment to our thoughts and experiences as the revelation of our true selves. Enlightenment is simply an absence of this alignment or in other words 'letting go'."
My short perspective of Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51
God
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
Nietzsche
Potential
"With yoga all is possible! Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus."
Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois | Ashtanga Yoga Founder
Krishna
""It is better to live one's inner law imperfectly than another's law perfectly.""
Krishna to Arjuna from Bhagavad-Gita
Learn
"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Interest
"I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them."
Pina Bausch
Sultra 1.23-1.29
"Devotion and letting go into one's creative source is a particular consciousness unaffected by thoughts, actions or results and it is from this that the most ancient teachers were taught. The sacred word for this source is the sound OM and it is remembered for what it represents. Then from this remembering comes the realization of the true self and the removal of obstacles."
Yoga Sultra 1.23-1.29
Own Yourself
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Nietzsche
Sutras 4.21
"If one mind were illumined by another, as it's master, then there would be an endless and absurd progression of cognitions, as well as confusion."
Yoga Sutras 4.21
Dancing
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Nietzsche
“You know, you don’t throw a whole life away just ’cause he’s banged up a little.” – Tom Smith. “You know, everybody thinks we found this broken-down horse and fixed him, but we didn’t. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way we kinda fixed each other too.” – Red Pollard
“Wanta know what I think?” – George Woolf “Of course.” – Charles Howard
“I think it’s better to break a man’s leg than his heart.” – George Woolf
*Quote from SeaBiscuit.
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