Negative Capability & Yoga
“The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; but to be in the lake— to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not ‘work the lake out’; it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery…”
And so does yoga.
The way an artist accesses truth is largely the same as a yoga practitioner : both are capable of allowing themselves to be held between worlds or ideas, while still witnessing the . This kind of truth is not contingent on logic or science—
Rather, it is the kind of truth which is only learned through presence and devotion, behind the world of thought and idea.
“It is only at the time of intense devotion and love that the mind becomes void and free from the past”
