“One must first of all concentrate one’s thoughts on an object. Once one’s mind achieves a state of concentration and the space between oneself and the object has disappeared, the essential nature of the object can be perceived. Then express it immediately. If one ponders it, it will vanish from the mind.”
MATSUO BASHO 'Learn From the Pine'
Indeed, when a group, a path, a teacher, a practice, or a community begin to see themselves as having 'the perfect way,' it is a sure sign that reality testing has been impaired.
Stephen Cope YOGA AND THE QUEST FOR THE TRUE SELF 'To the Mountaintop'
How is it possible to remain peaceful in such a violent world?
You have to want to lose your appetite for violence or aggression. And to do that, you have to lose your self-righteousness. You have to realize that you cannot continue to have your habitual reaction to something, especially if your reaction ends with violence-physical or verbal-against yourself or somebody else, or even against the government of your country or the terrorists or whomever. You have to accept in your gut that the habitual reaction is poisonous not only to you but to the rest of the world.
Pema Chodron
Life is beautiful. There's treasure in every moment-treasure you may overlook unless you are aware of the impermanence of everything.
Steve Ross HAPPY YOGA 'You Were Never Born and You Will Never Die'
...the 8 factors (limbs) of Patanjali's Yoga could usefully be arranged in a circle since it is by their combined power that the yogin propels himself forward along the path of internalisation.
George Feuerstein THE YOGA SUTRA OF PATANJALI 'The Eightfold Yoga'
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