"To concentrate on the present is to trust in the future and in your own power.
As a present-minded student, you trust that in the next second you will make the proper movement.
You don't have to think about it first.
You don't have to checkup on yourself.
The next second, your inner power will be there to do the right thing, just as it is there this second.
This inner intelligence, which we call Body-Mind, does not need the thinking mind to tell it how to do the Form."
β Bob Klein, Movements of Magic (1984)
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As a present-minded student, you trust that in the next second you will make the proper movement.
You don't have to think about it first.
You don't have to checkup on yourself.
The next second, your inner power will be there to do the right thing, just as it is there this second.
This inner intelligence, which we call Body-Mind, does not need the thinking mind to tell it how to do the Form."
β Bob Klein, Movements of Magic (1984)
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' Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says listening can help end the suffering of an individual.
"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.
You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion.
Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time.
For now, you don't interrupt. You don't argue. If you do, he loses his chance.
You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less.
One hour like that can bring transformation and healing."
~ ThΓch NhαΊ₯t HαΊ‘nh '
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"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.
You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion.
Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time.
For now, you don't interrupt. You don't argue. If you do, he loses his chance.
You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less.
One hour like that can bring transformation and healing."
~ ThΓch NhαΊ₯t HαΊ‘nh '
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βNever forget, Alexandros, that this flesh, this body, does not belong to us. Thank God it doesnβt. If I thought this stuff was mine, I could not advance a pace into the face of the enemy. But it is not ours, my friend. It belongs to the gods and to our children, our fathers and mothers and those of Lakedaemon a hundred, a thousand years yet unborn."
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
What is a [yoga] practice? A practice is a regular, daily application of intention.
Itβs not an ego trip. Humility is a prime virtue in entering upon a practice. But a practice is not for cream puffs. A practice requires fierce intention and the relentless commitment of a warrior.
A practice is spiritual. Its technique is to use a simple physical act or skill as an avenue to access the higher aspects of the self.
In Hatha yoga, the various poses are meant to take us beyond our bodies, into our breath and ultimately into a state of consciousness where weβre present in our flesh but are, at the same time, looking on from a higher, more detached plane. Thatβs the payoff; along with happier backs and longer hamstrings.
The great part about a practice is it can be learned. There are guidelines. Itβs not a mystery. The teacher starts us at the beginning. Guides us. We practice; we get better. Our understanding deepens over time.
We had thought, when we started, that we were teaching our bodies to perform postures or asanas, but now we see that the postures are teaching us. We're being taught patience. Our ego is being humbled. We are learning. The end is nothing. The act is everything. The practice is everything.
~Steven Pressfield
Itβs not an ego trip. Humility is a prime virtue in entering upon a practice. But a practice is not for cream puffs. A practice requires fierce intention and the relentless commitment of a warrior.
A practice is spiritual. Its technique is to use a simple physical act or skill as an avenue to access the higher aspects of the self.
In Hatha yoga, the various poses are meant to take us beyond our bodies, into our breath and ultimately into a state of consciousness where weβre present in our flesh but are, at the same time, looking on from a higher, more detached plane. Thatβs the payoff; along with happier backs and longer hamstrings.
The great part about a practice is it can be learned. There are guidelines. Itβs not a mystery. The teacher starts us at the beginning. Guides us. We practice; we get better. Our understanding deepens over time.
We had thought, when we started, that we were teaching our bodies to perform postures or asanas, but now we see that the postures are teaching us. We're being taught patience. Our ego is being humbled. We are learning. The end is nothing. The act is everything. The practice is everything.
~Steven Pressfield
"You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel."
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
"War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor."
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
β Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire