"Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?"

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Source : Richard Rosen (2002). “The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

Richard Rosen

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“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”
“I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.”
“There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.”
“No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.”
“It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers
“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”
“In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.”
“My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.”

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