A Quote by David F. Swensen

The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out. — © David F. Swensen
The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.

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David F. Swensen
Born: 1954
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the globe. What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.
But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.
Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.
Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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