Leza Lowitz quotes

“Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.”
-- Leza Lowitz

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“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”
-- Leza Lowitz

Source : Leza Lowitz (2011). “Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections”, p.60, Stone Bridge Press

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“The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.”
-- Leza Lowitz

Source : Leza Lowitz, Shogo Oketani (2013). “Jet Black and the Ninja Wind”, p.69, Tuttle Publishing

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“There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.”

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.”

“True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.”

“When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.”

“Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?”

“You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”