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“…The asana simultaneously teach us to stay with the matter at hand, while deconstructing the personality flaws that induced us to hide out in our imaginations in the first place….” (Rolf Gates)
My opinion regarding this sentiment follows the lines of …lose confidence and “act-as-if”….
Living in one’s imagination or living the way one “thinks’’ one “should”, or living “as-if” in public is the sure-fire method- to lose the value of living in the Moment.
Seems like the addicted lifestyle demands its adherents live life “as-if” and as one “should” keep up appearances to “fit-in”. As in living in one's imagination!
Are you fitting in? Have you gotten the message yet that the sub-division crowd and the big people and the big cars of America are all about keeping up pretenses? Are you living in your imagination?
We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. This is the adult way. This leaves no loop-hole to become ensnared by emotionally.
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“In life we must learn not only how to live, but how to die well.”
Seneca
“This quote was my first introduction to the world of adult life. I was twenty-six when I read it, and although I had graduated from high school and college, had left the army and friends I’d made during difficult years, I had not yet grasped the cycle of life,
death and rebirth that happens within a single lifetime.
What Seneca taught me was that an adult lives many lives. We invest years in a moment, and then that moment passes and we must be willing to let it go, so as to be able to embrace the next moment. A study on longevity found that the common thread among those who live long is their ability to endure loss. This is the lesson of shavasana.We embrace a moment with all we have, and when the moment is over we step back and let go.”
Meditations from the Mat, Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison
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