Richard Rosen Quotes

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• 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…
• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth…
• 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 condition.…
• 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 that…
• 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.
• If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
• Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
• Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
• The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

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