Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. – Krishnamacharya
Ancestral Teacher Qiu said, “If the breathing is at all unsettled, life is not your own.” – “Heaven and Earth,” c. Ming dynasty work Anthology on the Cultivation of Realiza
But Jesus, when you dont have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, its sex. When you have both, its health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then youre frightened of death. – J. P. Donleavy
If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time youre ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, youve got a full menu. – Lisa Edelstein
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. – Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
