Quotes by Darrell Calkins, Re:

“I look at the idea of rest as rotating ones qualitative focus, not just doing less or changing activity. The role of rest is recovery. If you keep pushing the same quality button (fast or slow, con...”

“The trick is in genuinely appreciating the elements of apparent resistance while you are engaging them. Not to oppose or remove them as much as to creatively fold them into ones linear line of move...”

“A balanced diet is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual...”

“If one follows what is in ones heart (lets leave out mind for the moment), one ends up with what one truly values and loves in lifeand one acts accordingly. Ones own private indulgent cyclic habitu...”

“If you, one, loves something or someone, that means that one is willing to, and does, sacrifice for it. That is, one chooses to do and give what is better to the being or thing one loves than to sa...”

“Appreciation, affection, focus and intention fill up the space of self-reflection, and one loses oneself in the engagement. And what a relief it is when you get there.”

“Everyone claims to want the truth. If you really want it, Id suggest investing seriously in humor and this mysterious skill of transforming bad news into good. Otherwise, youll only get more frustr...”

“Truth, or mystery basically, seeks the expression of itself. That is, evolution exists to create more mystery, not to answer or end the existing mysteries. This is why with every truth revealed, or...”

“Every brilliant theory in physics, for example, has been proven mainly wrong, except for the most recent ones, which will be. The big players, like Newton and Copernicus, gave us answers that were ...”

“The depth and complexity of the questions weve recently been engaging tend to ignite associated questions very quickly. The family members of these subjectspurpose, responsibility, devotion, commit...”

“The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change.”

“As we move through time, we age, with the general speed of everything and the chaos that that produces in us in the form of anxiety, fear, confusion and negotiating an already-existing war, there i...”

“There exists a direct link, or harmony, between the past, the present and the future. This has been misinterpreted, or exaggerated in both directions, either by the assumption that everything is ra...”

“The experience of yearning is a composite of Natures purest impulse in you (the need for radical movement; think of all the analogies in all the religions and philosophies concerning the truth and ...”

“The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.”

“Like all things organically formed, there does exist a harmony, interrelated patterns, intuitive logic, and purpose, but these are subtle and you cant find them exclusively by emotional or intellec...”

“Traditionally, true contemplation involves an act of devotion, wherein self-consciousness is removed by transferring consciousness onto the thing at hand. The better you perceive it, the less you o...”

“Nothing stands still, even if it looks as though it does. Look at a light in the room you are in right now. It appears to be stationary, while the fact is that millions of rays are moving towards y...”

“On a psychological and physiological level, the habits of contraction are often caused by the desire to control or acquire, even to acquire generosity or devotion or emptiness. These are subtle and...”

“There is an actual and palpable hierarchy of emotional, mental and physiological intensity that corresponds to the actual capacities and limitations of human beings. In other words, there does exis...”