'If you are a student, having a teacher means that you have realized that the process of life and the process of yoga are beyond your ability to completely control. Even though you may intuitively know you are so close to understanding life, deep inside your heart you also know that the true mystery of life and of the present moment is revealed only through surrender, through letting go, through not controlling and not-knowing. To be able to simply rest and to fall back into the very nature of existence, to be able to dissolve into the core of pure being without having to hold on to any belief or any conceptual system or form, to release any hope and attachment to finding reality, this is the essential practice of yoga. To become a student is to become a fool, and to become a fool is to become wise.'
- Richard Freeman, in ‘The Mirror of Yoga.’
- Richard Freeman, in ‘The Mirror of Yoga.’