Swami Satyananda Saraswati
- Surya Namaskara: A Technique of Solar Vitalization: Chapter 7
How can we really help our children grow if we ourselves are not masters of our own life forces? Only a master gardener knows how much water, fertilizer and pruning a plant needs. In the same way, if we are not masters then we should not try to prune our children, lest we cut off some essential part that may never grow back.
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I must not cringe. Cringe is the mind-killer. Cringe is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my cringe. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the cringe has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Jodi Balfour
Sometimes it's that feeling of being utterly seen - a brief moment of 'I'm like that, too,' that lingers, fuels you. And sometimes it's more ambiguous than that, there's involuntary emotion, a quickening, a catching of the breath, a rising heat and aliveness that makes everything feel very pure for a while. Storytelling, in these instances, has total power over me. There's nothing else quite like it.
