Kathi

“Any organ or part of the body which is not exercised gradually atrophies and refuses to function properly, and lack of the internal exercise afforded by the diaphragmatic action leads to diseased organs.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath

“Man in his normal state had no need of instruction in breathing. Like the lower animal and the child, he breathed naturally and properly, as nature intended him to do, but civilization has changed him in this and other respects. He has contracted improper methods and attitudes of walking, standing and sitting, which have robbed him of his birthright of natural and correct breathing.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath

“The soul of the primitive man reincarnated almost immediately after the death of the physical body, because the experiences gained were mostly along the lines of the physical, the mental planes being scarcely brought into play, while the higher and spiritual faculties were almost entirely obscured from sight. Life after life the soul of the primitive man lived out in rapid succession. But in each new embodiment there was a slight advance over that of the previous one. Experience, or rather the result of experiences, were carried over, and profited by. New lessons were learned and unlearned, improved upon or discarded. And the race grew and unfolded.”
― William Walker Atkinson, A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

“The psyche is divided into consciousness and the unconscious and the latter serves to compensate the conscious attitude. Whenever the conscious attitude is too one-sided, its unconscious opposite manifests itself autonomously (Greek: auto=self, nomos=law, a law unto itself) to rectify the imbalance. It does this internally through powerful dreams and images, or it can pathologize in disease.”
― Maggie Hyde, Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide