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.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
I write to save someone's life, probably my own
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