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What is Your Mantra?
Via Daily Downward Dog So what exactly is a mantra? According to two of my favorite word mavens Merriam and Webster, the definition goes like this: man·tra noun \ˈmän-trə also ˈman- or ˈmən-\ : a sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is praying or meditating : a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses […]
5/31 Quote: K. Pattabhi Jois
“With practice, all is coming.” ~ Krishna Pattabhi Jois
Mindfulness Meditation
Liz Kulze writes about Mindfulness Meditation in The Atlantic: In a practical sense, “sitting” is really all there is to the meditation aspect of mindfulness meditation. For anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour (or more) each day, whether alone or with a group, you sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed, focusing on […]
This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]