Krishnamacharya is said to have described Isvara Pranidhana as the most important yoga practice for the Kali Yuga we live in, an “Iron Age” in which all humanity has fallen away from grace.
Food is no better suited to mechanization as is sex, love, art, education, health, religion or anything else that is close to body or soul..”
-No Nonsense Guide to World Food
-No Nonsense Guide to World Food
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Eaters must understand that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.” -Wendell Barry
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mzjo:
Photo and caption by Lynsey Stone
Mom joyfully screams “I LOVE YOU BABY” as she delivers her last child, a boy.
There is an assumption that we humans are inferior to the other five thousand or so species of mammals in our ability to give birth to our young […] Those who are used to the birth ways of other mammals know that it is easy to cause complications during labor by disturbing the mother. If we put horses, goats, and cows through the restrictions and indignities that most laboring women in U.S. hospitals are routinely subjected to, the animals would surely have as many complications as we do. The astonishing thing to me is that we have come to believe that our human bodies are not as well designed for birth as other mammals’ are. Really it’s our brains that can pose problems: we alone among mammals have the ability to scare and confuse ourselves about birth.
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