Richard Rosen Quotes

• Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?

  Richard Rosen

  Real, Yoga, Practice

  Richard Rosen (2002). “The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).

  Richard Rosen

  Eight, Vision, Doubt

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• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

  Richard Rosen

  Dog, Acting, Behaviour

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• Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

  Richard Rosen

  Happens, Anything Is Possible

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

  Richard Rosen

  Communication, America, Preventing

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• The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.

  Richard Rosen

  Spring, Real, Self

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• It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

  Richard Rosen

  Names, Ego, Needs

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