“When the mind is free from unhelpful worries the city (body) comes alive to the joy of existence.” Downward Dog

 “This city (body) is built of bones, plastered with flesh and blood; within are decay and death, pride and jealousy.”

Lama Dharma DingDong
(Discoursing the Dhammapada)

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"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of
in the autumn."

— Leo Tolstoy

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"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky