"Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head"

-- Swami Satchidananda

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“Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.
“I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.”
“I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to internalize and empathize with the characters. Stepping into that person's shoes is transformative. It changes you. Looking at my own life, it's also humbling to write.”
“The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of cloth on her head. And in that ideology there's a very fundamental assumption that people need to think very deeply about, which is do you believe that a woman is too sexy for her hair?”

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.
“Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”
“It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.”
“A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.”
“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.”

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