AClairification

“Oftentimes when we need yoga the most, we want it the least.”
― Rolf Gates, Meditations from the mat

“I soon noticed that there was nothing haphazard about her clothing; it was all in keeping with a particular style that I might call “Little Lord Fauntleroy meets French salon hostess.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The idea of the world around us being our extended body is, to me, one of the most profound and obvious reasons for practicing the yamas, and behaviors like non-harm and kindness. Not only are the elements and people around us extensions of us, but we are extensions of them as well. There is truly no “other” out there; there is only all of us, together, as one, huge, simultaneous happening.”
― Eddie Stern, One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life

“Dr. Daniel Siegel has said that the mental processes of awareness, which the yogis identified as the subtle body, can be used to meditate on our entire sphere of experience, and then to be able to distinguish the experiencer from the experience that is being had. He calls this the Wheel of Awareness, a straightforward and profound practice that guides you through meditating on your five senses; the interior sense of your body (interoception), which he calls the sixth sense; your mental activities, the seventh sense; and your sense of interconnectedness, the eighth sense. These senses exist as the rim of the wheel, where our senses meet experience. The hub of the wheel, however, is our clear, calm, receptive, open, and aware sense of being. It is our center, a center that is connected to all other centers, and perhaps where we can sense divinity within us.5”
― Eddie Stern, One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life