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Yoga was originally practised by holy ascetics in India, its aim to focus the mind, connect with a higher consciousness and, through this newfound compassion, end suffering in the world.

Resolutely I stared at the television. I hadn’t been at school since the day before my mother died and as long as I stayed away her death seemed unofficial somehow.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won’t stop loving them, even after they’re dead and gone.

When he looked away again, it was as if the room had darkened, and she understood that she’d begun to love him for the reassuring incandescence of his smile alone.

Long years after that day, the Afghan guerrillas I came to know as friends, on a mountain near the siege of Kandahar, talked for hours about Indian films and their favourite Bollywood movie stars.

What had seemed unimaginably strange and remote from my experience suddenly became possible, and comprehensible, and, finally, fascinating. 

My task is to prove to those people that live in our country that Russian cuisine existed, exists and will exist.

David Whyte on friendship:

Grief has its own time frame. It has its own itinerary with you. It has its own power over you, and it will come when it comes.

One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world, and to think in absolute terms of pristine purity versus satanic evil.

... in a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know.