The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are! Let form be just form, let sound be just sound, let thought be just thought….If we think and feel in this way, then there is detachment and separateness. Our thoughts and feelings will be on one side and our heart will be on the other. Just like oil and water – they are in the same bottle but they are separate.
Ajahn Chah, Food for the Heart
C’est la Nuit qu’il est beau de croire à la lumière
It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light
Edmond Rostand, 1868 – 1918, French poet and dramatist
Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking.
Goethe
There’s a remedy -only one – for the paralysis seizing your throat to mute you,
numbing your hands:
Remember the great ones, remember
Cezanne doggedly sur le motif, his mountain
a tireless noonday angel he grappled like Jacob,
demanding reluctant blessing.
Each life in art
goes forth to meet dragons that rise from their bloody scales
in cyclic rhythm: Know and forget, know and forget.
It’s not only
the passion for getting it right (though it’s that , too)
it’s the way
radiant epiphanies recur, recur,
consuming, pristine, unrecognized….
And then, look,
some reflection of light, some wing of shadow
is other, unvoiced.
You can, you must
proceed.
Denise Levertov, For Those Whom the Gods Love Less [extracts]
You cannot do yoga.
Yoga is your natural state.
What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Sharon Gannon, 1951 – , yoga teacher, animal rights advocate, musician and author
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard, 1930 – , French Film Director
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