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Why I Love Yoga

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“The Yogis, however, say that human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity.  We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality.  We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature.  We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character…Yoga is the effort to experience one’s divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.  Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise…True Yogis, from their seat of equipoise, see all this world as an equal manifestation of God’s creative energy—men, women, children, turnips, bedbugs, coral: it’s all God in disguise.  But the Yogis believe a human life is a very special opportunity, because only in a human form and only with a human mind can God-realization ever occur.  The turnips, the bedbugs, the coral—they never get a chance to find out who they really are.  But we do have that chance”

-An excerpt from the India portion of Elizabeth Gilbert’s trip for Eat, Pray, Love

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