I am reading a book called "12 Steps to a Compassionate Life" by Karen Armstrong. I'm finding it to be one of the most inspiring books I've read in a long time. So I may take the next few posts to share some of the things that have stood out to me.
For today:
"Classical yoga was not an aerobic exercise but a systematic assault on the ego... [people ] engaged in the conquest of inner space and in a raid on the unconscious drives that held human beings captive to their me-first instincts...[a yogi] learned to master the ceaseless flux of thoughts, sensations, and fantasies that coursed through his mind in order to concentrate "on one point" As a result, he found that he saw other objects and people differently; because he had repressed the aura of memory and personal association surrounding each on of them, he no longer saw them through he filter of his own desires and needs. The "I" was disappearing from his thinking."
