If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“the answer might seem obvious: of course yoga is appropriate—why else would thirty-six million of us be spending billions of dollars every year on yoga classes, books, magazines, and videos, retreats and conferences, yoga gear and clothing, and assorted Hindu geegaws? No doubt these are impressive numbers, but they don’t settle the issue, since it’s possible that a whole passel… — Richard Rosen Copy Share
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada),… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“If you ask an average yoga teacher what yoga is, you usually get a little talk on “union” and how the practice is five… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
