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“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
—Thomas Paine ~ The Rights of Man
Cultivating Compassion to Tame the Ego
First published on Daily Cup of Yoga By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards the wicked the mind becomes pure. ~ Yoga Sutra 1:33 Consider this: A yoga teacher gets a better time slot than you and her class is full when you arrive to teach the next class. […]
“Open yourself and let life take you where you don’t know you need to be taken.”
David Foster Wallace – Enslavement and Lucid Thoughts
“That feeling of having to obey every impulse and gratify every desire seems to me to be a strange kind of slavery. Nobody talks about it as such, though.” If you’re familiar with his work, you know that David Foster Wallace was exceptionally and almost painfully aware of the finer details of both himself […]
I’ve always loved this speech. I think this new take on it is pretty aawesome!
Chris, thanks for the comment! The perspective is pretty awesome. I love to think about what other life exists out there, outside of this blue dot we are on.