​Yoga as Refuge
This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter.
Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. ...
Be bold.
Be humble.
Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home. 
  St Teresa of Avila, 1515-1582



​Radiance Sutra #4
At the end of the exhale,
breath surrenders to quietude.
For a moment you hang in the balance -
Suspended
In the fertile spaciousness
that is the source of the breath.
At the end of the inhale,
filled with the song of the breath,
there is a moment when you are simply
Holding the tender mystery.

In these interludes,
experience opens into exquisite vastness
with no beginning and no end.
Embrace this infinity without reservation.
You are its vessel.
 ‘The Radiance Sutras’
Lorin Roche translation of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra (Kashmir around 800 AD)

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