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Mickey Z
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Yoga to the rescue?
It can be, uh...instructive to sometimes read the different forms of American journalism (sic) and pretend you’re not a pampered Westerner. Instead, imagine yourself as a destitute Third Worlder. Recently, as I skimmed the June/July issue of New York Yoga magazine, I found myself wondering what the following excerpts must sound like to, say, a 13-year-old Afghani girl or a high school age boy in Malawi:
The spiritual purpose of life is to lead the individual soul to the ecstatic communion with the Beloved Divine.
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Only a yogi who meditates on his head can be so pure that he can write an article on the ethics and morals of yoga.
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After we are born, we spend the first two years of our lives communicating heart-to-heart with our parents and loved ones ... We live in a heart-centered world where we are safe, full, complete, and content.
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Event Alert:
Those in the Chicago area, consider yourselves warned. Expendable JOS (James O’Shea) is reading some of his amazing poetry at Hotti Biscotti:
Thursday, June 12
8:00 - 10:00
Hotti Biscotti
3545 W. Fullerton
(Logan Square neighborhood on Fullerton between Kimball/Central Park)
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(Think: Henry Miller meets Bukowski and Vonnegut at Sunday Mass)
This short story will give you an idea of what CPR for Dummies has to offer
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