Philosophy
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2017
There is unlimited potential for solidarity, connection, and compassion inside of each and every one of us. The loneliness you feel, the sorrow of disconnection, is the inner voice telling you to plug in and wake up. Might I recommend Ashtanga yoga? It's very simple and incredibly effective. DCASHTANGA.COM
"The No. 1 rule is: Donât. Take. Life. Too. Fucking. Seriously. That is the No. 1 rule. I learned it early on and, initially, I was really heartbroken because I was taking life seriously. I couldnât believe that my parents and people could be so cruel and so heartless. For a sweet, sensitive soul, there are stages of the evolution . . . once you uncover lifeâs cruel hoax, you become angry and you become mad as hell and then you become bitter. And then you become very cynical. Unfortunately, most sweet, sensitive souls stay in the bitterness and the cynicism. But the next level beyond thatâif you can go beyond thatâis laughter and irreverence . . . you can laugh, you can dance, you can seek out the places where you can blossom and expand, because you wonât get tied down to what other people have to say about what youâre doing."
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/rupaul-drag-race-interview?mbid=social_twitter
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/rupaul-drag-race-interview?mbid=social_twitter
"The origin of truth is love."
"Learn to mock convenience"
Yoga & veggies best practice: when you can, go local, go organic, go unmodified from the seeds of origin when you can. Heirloom tomatoes and yogas with lineage. I'm into it.
in imageCONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE ESSENTIAL
KECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS
REFINES YOUR ALIGNMENT AND
TECHNIQUE EFFECTIVELY.
EMBRACE PERSONAL GROWTH
EACH SESSION OFFERS UNIQUE INSIGHTS
INTO YOUR EVOLVING PHYSICAL AND
MENTAL STATE.
INNER EXPERIENCE MATTERS
PERSONAL AWARENESS ENHANCES YOGA
PRACTICE, GUIDING YOUR MOVEMENTS
AND BREATH.
BALANCED ASHTANGA PRACTICE
MAINTAIN SELF-AWARENESS
BEING ATTUNED TO YOUR BODY FOSTERS
DEEPER CONNECTIONS IN YOUR PRACTICE.
OBJECTIVE JUDGMENT COUNTS
EXTERNAL FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS HELPS
CLARIFY AND IMPROVE YOUR PRACUICE.
KECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS
REFINES YOUR ALIGNMENT AND
TECHNIQUE EFFECTIVELY.
EMBRACE PERSONAL GROWTH
EACH SESSION OFFERS UNIQUE INSIGHTS
INTO YOUR EVOLVING PHYSICAL AND
MENTAL STATE.
INNER EXPERIENCE MATTERS
PERSONAL AWARENESS ENHANCES YOGA
PRACTICE, GUIDING YOUR MOVEMENTS
AND BREATH.
BALANCED ASHTANGA PRACTICE
MAINTAIN SELF-AWARENESS
BEING ATTUNED TO YOUR BODY FOSTERS
DEEPER CONNECTIONS IN YOUR PRACTICE.
OBJECTIVE JUDGMENT COUNTS
EXTERNAL FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS HELPS
CLARIFY AND IMPROVE YOUR PRACUICE.
"Playing devilâs advocate so well, people with this personality type may find that the most complex and rewarding intellectual challenge is to understand a more sentimental perspective, and to argue consideration and compromise alongside logic and progress."
https://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality
https://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality
I can't ever know what would have happened to the deeply damaged 20 year old boy I remember so well if not for yoga.
Now, more than ever, I think of the importance of practice.
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/yoga-can-help-girls-with-trauma
Now, more than ever, I think of the importance of practice.
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/yoga-can-help-girls-with-trauma
Treat an orchid like a rose and it will surely die.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." -- MLK JR
Maybe the cicada is my spirit animal? Some of y'all are monarchs, others painted ladies-- that's well and good.
"They have an exceptionally loud song. Most cicadas are cryptic, singing at night to avoid predators. The periodic cicadas spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerging only after 13 or 17 years, which may reduce losses by starving their predators and eventually emerging in huge numbers which overwhelm and satiate any remaining predators.
Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's Iliad, and as motifs in art from the Chinese Shang dynasty. They have been used in myths and folklore to represent carefree living and immortality."
"They have an exceptionally loud song. Most cicadas are cryptic, singing at night to avoid predators. The periodic cicadas spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerging only after 13 or 17 years, which may reduce losses by starving their predators and eventually emerging in huge numbers which overwhelm and satiate any remaining predators.
Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's Iliad, and as motifs in art from the Chinese Shang dynasty. They have been used in myths and folklore to represent carefree living and immortality."
"There's a saying that the four prerequisites for practice are great faith, great doubt, great vow, and great vigor. When I first went to Mysore it was because I wanted to see if being there and studying with Sharath would satisfy the questions in my mind about practice. About this thing that I felt driven to do, but didn't understand exactly why."
http://www.ashtangaparampara.org/karen-kelley.html
http://www.ashtangaparampara.org/karen-kelley.html
Overheard today: "Remember the spiritual principal of persistence."
I rely on mantra in so many different ways in my daily life, my yoga practice, and my teaching practice.
Regularly, the good Sis Britney is bringing me that patience and resolve to hold space in trying times:
Break it down, break it down, break it down
Break it down, break it down, break it down
This ain't no foolishness or fuckery
I'm handling my business (Business)
Holler if you hear me
Hey, can I get a witness
Preacher, preacher
I'm the teacher, you can learn
Watch your fingers, boy
You might get burned
If you've ever been to heaven, this is twice as nice. Break it down.
Regularly, the good Sis Britney is bringing me that patience and resolve to hold space in trying times:
Break it down, break it down, break it down
Break it down, break it down, break it down
This ain't no foolishness or fuckery
I'm handling my business (Business)
Holler if you hear me
Hey, can I get a witness
Preacher, preacher
I'm the teacher, you can learn
Watch your fingers, boy
You might get burned
If you've ever been to heaven, this is twice as nice. Break it down.
Vasistha, the great sage, lead a peaceful community-- the kind where people got on swell and took care of each oâ¦
âWe call this mosquito net green. But how do you know what I see as green looks like what you see as green? No, all we can say is that we both agree that this thing we see is that which we both call green... which tells us nothing about either the net orâ¦
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