Kundalini Yoga teacher Hari Kirin Khalsa, a painter who wrote Art & Yoga, says: “When you’re under stress, you’re contracted and fearful. Everything is black and white. You’re not intuitive; you’re instinctive. You can’t think outside the box.” But by practicing asana, pranayama, meditation, or devotional chanting, she says, you can shift out of that stressful state and connect with your imaginative, spacious Self. “Yoga opens up the flow of creativity, the unfurling of the creator within.”
While in the old town of Lijiang, I spotted this wall with interesting images on it. I started taking shots of the wall, but every time I tried, someone would get in the way. I got quite frustrated but then I saw an opportunity: it suddenly dawned on me that I could use the wall as a background and rather focus on the people walking by, thereby creating a moving portrait of the vibrant city I found myself in.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn (via alexwonderland)
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Stress is the rate at which we live at any moment. All living beings are constantly under stress, and anything - pleasant or unpleasant - that speeds up the intensity of life causes a temporary increase in stress, the wear and tear exerted upon the body. A painful blow and a passionate kiss can be equally stressful.
Hans Selye
7 months ago on October 16, 2012 at 06:23am
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When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we’re supposed to live up to. We feel we’re supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are - heightens your awareness of exactly where you’re stuck.
Pema Chödrön (via yogachocolatelove)
The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via supa-chuuuu)
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