Quotes of the day, November 14
Dave’s visit eventually grew into a very active yoga program, and in due course we received the first grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of yoga on PTSD. Dave’s work also contributed to my developing my own regular yoga practice and becoming a frequent teacher at Kripalu, a yoga center in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. (Along the way, my own HRV pattern improved as well.)
Bessel van der Kolk
June 28
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Plotinus
June 27
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
June 26
'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
Ethan Canin
June 25
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston
June 24
To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.
Will Gluck
