Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such
Whether he thinks too little or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Alexander Pope
Links:
Alexander Pope wikipedia.org
I compiled this list for Kristina from a recommended book list from her yoga school. Further recommendations are welcome..
Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personnal Experience
by Theos Bernard
ISBN 0955241227
The Gheranda Samhita: A Treatise on Hatha Yoga
Sris Chandra Vasu
ISBN 1436690420
Raja Yoga
by Swami Vivekananda
ISBN 8180900363
Sacred Texts: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
by Swami Vivekananda
ISBN 1905857039
A Search in Secret India
by Paul Brunton
ISBN 1844130436
The Morning of the Magicians (Mysteries of the Universe)
by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier
ISBN 0285635832
The Serpent Power: Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga
by Arthur Avalon
ISBN 0486230589
Tantrik Texts
by Arthur Avalon
ISBN 8177557254
Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Works of Mircea Eliade)
Mircea Eliade
ISBN 0691017646
Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa
by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN 8178222523
The Gheranda Samhita: A Treatise on Hatha Yoga
by Sris Chandra Vasu
ISBN 1436690420
Links:
Raja Yoga wikipedia.org
