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You, as cook, eater and yo-yo dieter, change too. Over a lifetime, you acquire and cultivate skills. Sometimes you neglect and lose skills. Over years, you acquire and lose habits and learn and forget recipes. Over months, you adapt your eating to your changing exercise and work routines, experiment with different cuisines, and switch cereals. As you age and your health changes, you build in systems to deal with issues such as high cholesterol or diabetes. Over weeks you go grocery shopping and take out the garbage. Day after day, you ask yourself, what shall I eat today?
The reawakening of her spiritual life led her onto the path of Tibetan Buddhism and eventually to take the vow of an initiate: “‘To assist all sentient beings in their awakening and their enlightenment.’ Which is still my vocation.”
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
‘If we will observe correctly the manifestations of the psyche of a modern man, it will be clearly seen that he never acts on his own initiative and for reasons within himself, but, by his actions, only expresses the changes that are brought about in his mechanism by causes outside him. He does not think: something in him thinks; he does not act: something acts through him; he does not create: something in him creates; he does not accomplish: something is accomplished through him. ‘This becomes clear when we are able to understand the processes of perception of external and internal influences by each centre, by which responsive actions are brought about.
Teachings of Gurdjieff
C. S. Nott
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