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“Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.”

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Book:Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living

Source: Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living

“This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.”

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Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

“Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!”

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Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.”