We live in a mysterious world full of uncertainties. And we regularly make assumptions to explain them. Generally our explanations are guesses. We are interpretation machines, and this process of labeling and detaching is efficient but not accurate. We are the unreliable narrators of our own experience. - Rick Rubin
Perfection is finally obtained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there’s no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
America needs a practical, enjoyable system of physical culture that will keep us at the highest peak of health and that will prevent the negative conditions which come with neglect and incorrect health habits. We need a method of health preservation which can be practiced at home on our own time and with an absolute minimum of expense. Those who have practiced Yoga for even a few weeks know that only Yoga satisfies those needs. Yoga is complete because it reaches and works out every part of the human organism, internal as well as external. It is perfectly efficient because it always works. There is no hit or miss. It is an exact science.
- Eugene Rawls When this is, that is. From the arising of this comes the arising of that. When this is not, that is not. From the cessation of this comes the cessation of that. - Buddha
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles. Fear is the basis of the whole thing – fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and the parent of cruelty, and therefor it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. - Bertrand Russell
Yoga, the oldest known science of self-development, has been found to be the answer to modern man’s deepest needs. It solves the problems of health, physical fitness and peace of mind. - Eugene Rawls
In this complicated world of ours, where contradictions abound, we find breathtaking beauty in the most unlikely of places. The brightest rainbows appear after the heaviest of storm clouds. Magnificent butterflies emerge from the drabbest cocoons. And the most beautiful lotus flowers bloom from the deepest and thickest mud. - Tina Turner
Buddhism is not mere mumbo-jumbo, a myth told to entertain the human mind or to satisfy the human emotion, but a liberal and noble method for those who sincerely want to understand and experience the reality of life. -- Ven. K. Sri Dhammananda
Those who negate too much fall into nihilism. Those who negate too little fall into eternalism. - Nagarjuna
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Victor M. Parachin ...is aVedic educator, yoga instructor, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of a dozen books. Buy his books at amazon or your local bookstore. Archives
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