And so January draws to an end. A month of re-establishing the relationship with my body in daily asana practice, a month in which I realised a daily practice needn’t be feared, a month in which I turned 39, a month in which the relationships in my life began to find their right place again, a month in which I taught my first yoga class, a month in which I felt the possibility of instructing on a regular basis, a month of deep cold and snow to start with, clear bright cool days to end. On we go…

From Jan 30:

You and the world are not different entities with separate problems; you and the world are one. Your problem is the world’s problem. … We are one; we are one humanity, though the artificial frontiers of economics and politics and prejudice divide us. If you kill another, you are destroying yourself.

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We have an intellectual knowledge of this unity but we keep knowledge and feeling in different compartments and hence we never experience the extraordinary unity of man.

From Jan 31:

Self-knowledge is not according to any formula. You may go to a psychologist or a psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, comes into being when we are aware of ourselves in relationship, which shows what we are from moment to moment. Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are.