Its not getting in and out of chairs even under the best of conditions that is of any value: that is simply physical culture: it is what you have been doing in preparation that counts when it comes to making movements.
F. M. Alexander
Isha Upanishad
To darkness are they doomed who devote themselves selves only to life in the world, and to a greater darkness they who devote themselves only to meditation.
Life in the world alone leads to one result, meditation alone leads to another. So have we heard from the wise.
They who devote themselves both to life in the world and to meditation, by life in the world overcome death, and by meditation achieve immortality.
To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.
Worship of the body alone leads to one result, worship of the spirit leads to another. So have we heard from the wise.
They who worship both the body and the spirit, by the body overcome death, and by the spirit achieve immortality.
FATHER, UPON THY IMAGE WE ARE SPANNED
Why are we split upon our double nature, how are we planned?
Father, upon what Image are we spanned?
Turning helpless in the garden of right and wrong
Mocked by the reversibles of good and evil
Heir of the exile. Lucifer, and brother of Thy universal Son
Who said it is finished when Thy synthesis was just begun.
We suffer the sorrow of separation and division
With a heart that blazes with Christ's vision:
That though we be deviously natured, dual-planned,
Father, upon Thy image we are spanned.
Carson McCullers