To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
Interpretation
Breathing techniques can influence our emotions and mental state.
This quote emphasizes the profound connection between our breath and our emotional experiences. It suggests that by consciously altering our breathing patterns, we can evoke a wide range of feelings, from love to anger, illustrating the control we have over our emotional responses through a simple, yet vital, act of life.
In practice
Using this quote during a meditation workshop to emphasize the importance of breath.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.
Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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