What is a [yoga] practice? A practice is a regular, daily application of intention.

It’s 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 we’re present in our flesh but are, at the same time, looking on from a higher, more detached plane. That’s the payoff; along with happier backs and longer hamstrings.

The great part about a practice is it can be learned. There are guidelines. It’s 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

"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."

– Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

"It's amazing, isn't it, how the fear can just drop away."
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' The network I co-facilitate is organizing paid local vehicle transportation for people with sensitivities to synthetic fragrances and other common environmental contaminants.

There are many people in every location who are unable to hire transport because they have health conditions that are worsened by scented products (vehicle "freshening" products, personal products, shampoo, antiperspirants, creams, cologne, clothes softener), cleaning products, laundry detergents, paints, petrochemicals, cigarette smoke, pesticides, solvents, and molds, for instance.

If you're looking for a market for transportation services that is unserved, often unnoticed, and in particular demand, there are more and more people who have to avoid these substances in order to be strong and healthy — but there are typically no knowledgeable transportation services available for them to hire. There's a lot of gratitude being expressed for our work to address this challenge.

Any type of vehicle can serve for this kind of service, if the driver understands how to keep it as free as possible from contaminants that cause issues for sensitive passengers and can communicate forthrightly on the subject.

We're glad to teach anyone who wants to earn money providing this kind of transportation.

If you're knowledgeable about environmental sensitivities or if you'd like to learn more, please reach out to me in private message or by commenting here. I'm making a list of drivers in the area who want to participate in projects as funding comes in. '

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"This man who had mentored me, who had inspired me, who had made me rethink how I did so many things…I had left him on hold and now he was dead."

"In an interview shortly after the death of the musician David Crosby, Crosby’s bandmate Graham Nash talked about the falling out they never got to resolve. “He had sent me a voicemail saying that he wanted to talk to apologize,” Nash said. “I emailed him back and said, ‘Okay, call me at 11 o’clock tomorrow your time, which is 2 o’clock on the East Coast.’ He never called, and then he was gone.”

You think you can do it tomorrow. You think you have tomorrow.

You very well may not.

The grudges we hold on to. The strange priorities we hold. The nonsense we get bogged down in.

There is a kind of arrogance in it. It takes tomorrow for granted.

This is the one thing all fools have in common, Seneca wrote. “They are always getting ready to live.” They are always thinking that they have plenty of time. They are always saying that they’ll be able to get to it later. They think that opportunities, that other people, that life can be deferred to the future.

They cannot."

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"So why do you allow things like famine, war, suffering, disease, crime, homelessness, despair etc. exist in our world?"
"Interesting that you should bring that up as I was about to ask you the exact same question..."
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When will their games end? When we stand up.