“My friend Heinrich Zimmer used to say the best things can’t be told, because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can’t be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. The third best are what we talk about.” –Continue reading “Joseph Campbell quoting Heinrich Zimmer”
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Siddhartha Considers Emotion
“He pondered this feeling which completely filled him as he slowly made his way. He pondered deeply, sinking down into the depths of this feeling, as through deep water, until he reached the point where the causes lie. For to know the causes – so it seemed to him – that is what thinking is. Continue reading “Siddhartha Considers Emotion”
Darren Main on the Source
“If you’re able to keep returning to your focus point (in meditation), you can move still deeper into the mind and experience the true Self, because underneath these three basic levels of consciousness (conscious mind, semi-conscious mind, unconscious mind) there is a fourth. For simplicity, I’ll refer to it as the source. It’s important toContinue reading “Darren Main on the Source”
Quote from Iyengar
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured, and endure what cannot be cured.” B.K.S. Iyengar
Quote by Matt Licata
Enter deeply into your neurosis, your anxiety, your panic, your confusion, your suffering, and your fear – get to know it’s textures, qualities and fragrances, and allow it to take you into the secret chamber buried inside your own body. For within the mandala of tender ripe aliveness there are jewels beyond the mind. –Continue reading “Quote by Matt Licata”
Quote from Darren Main
“As a modern yogi, the key to finding peace through yoga is to keep coming back to the practice. It doesn’t matter how often we get distracted by the ego, or for how long we play the ego’s game. The only thing that matters is that we return. Eventually the pain of living under theContinue reading “Quote from Darren Main”
Van Gogh Quote
“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace.”
“Many Miles” by Mary Oliver
The feet of the heron, under those bamboo stems, hold the blue body, the great beak above the shallows of the pond. Who could guess their patience? Sometimes the toes shake, like worms. What fish could resist? Or think of the cricket, his green hooks, climbing the blade of grass- or think of camel feetContinue reading ““Many Miles” by Mary Oliver”
From Rilke’s Book of Hours
I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide and timeless. So I am sometimes like aContinue reading “From Rilke’s Book of Hours”
On Working With The Creative Powers
This is a wonderful excerpt from the book Blue Pastures by Mary Oliver. It is not about an artist’s discipline, that is an entirely different subject. Rather, it’s about making oneself available at all times to one’s ideas and creative powers. “I am absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social obligations. It is as it must be. Continue reading “On Working With The Creative Powers”
C.M. Rivers 