Yoga this morning in the Tower Suite of Yewfield Guest House in the Lake District. New postures on the course today are the Locust and Side Bend. It was very cold – didn’t want to get out of bed. The northeast wind whistling past my elevated position.
Hittleman:
Most people are finding it more and more difficult to let go even when they are supposed to be relaxing and having a good time. This is because all of the anxious and irritating experiences that have piled up during the day refuse to take a temporary leave. You cannot relax on-cue. Consequently it is not relaxation that is sought, but rather escape, and the result is that tons of drugs and oceans of alcoholic drinks are now consumed each year.
Krishnamurti, from Book of Life, 10 January:
Doesn’t learning imply something new, something that I don’t know, and am learning? If I am merely adding to what I already know, it is no longer learning.
We are on our annual staff week. After breakfast we listened to an audio recording of J. Krishnamurti, from 1979, speaking about prejudice, the known, ideas and the blocking of direct perception. Then a walk to Tarn Hows. I went ice skating on the frozen lake.
Falling Awake 
For me learning and knowing are totally separate experiences. How do I know what I know. True knowing is so subtle, that I hope to never stop piling on the learning. Sometimes the weight of that repetitive learning is what finally leads to new insight.
I may do a posture over and over, daily for many years, never learning anything new, but then in one breath, everything can change, and I believe that it is because I kept showing up with faith in the possibility.