Dreams Quotes by Richard Rosen

“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…

— Richard Rosen

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

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

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

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

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

— Richard Rosen

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

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

“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

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

— Richard Rosen

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

— Richard Rosen

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

— Richard Rosen