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    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Ram Dass

    Disappointments are exquisite clues to where you’re holding. And if you want to awaken, a disappointment becomes a great thing, so you get to love them as much as you hate them. They’re hurting you, and at the same moment they are awakening you to how you’re clinging.

    By Sy SafranskyJune 1980
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With William Irwin Thompson

    My feeling is that we’re headed into a discontinuous transition. But anybody living inside one has to try to work for a continuous transition. You go ahead, knowing better, even though the enormous probability is that it will be highly catastrophic.

    By Sy SafranskyApril 1980
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Stewart Walker

    In massage each of the levels has to be respected. The tension seems to work in layers. It takes a certain amount of time to work through those different layers. It’s rude, in a way, to go barging into the deepest levels, unless there is relaxation and trust.

    By Sy SafranskyFebruary 1980
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Jimmy Santiago Baca

    On Writing, Prison, and The Human Spirit

    But you can’t look to the institutions of learning for the moral way of living. You have to look at those people that mix pluses and minuses together to get some weird, weird formula. And that’s exactly how I try to live. I try to mix the moon with the sun, and the stars with the water. And I try to come up with a new universe.

    By Sy SafranskyJanuary 1980
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Patricia Sun

    I don’t think when people get divorced it is necessarily a failure of the marriage, I think sometimes it is a finishing, a completing of the marriage. That you sometimes have worked out all the things that you can work out together.

    By Elizabeth Rose Campbell, Sy SafranskyDecember 1979
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Steve Rizzuto

    I’m basically interested in how people move and walk around. Movement is an integral activity in the life of every cell and, therefore, in every more complex system. So, motion rather than tightness in the body is what I’m interested in promoting.

    By Priscilla RichOctober 1979
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Farra Allen And Libby Outlaw

    Bodywork is like a dance. What I do with a person does not just depend on me, but on that other person. Certain people draw certain energies out of me.

    By Priscilla RichSeptember 1979
    The Sun Interview

    Getting Unstressed

    An Interview With Ken Pelletier

    You can think of our bodies as being naive. They can’t tell if your life is really in danger or if you’re just thinking as if your life were in danger. The fear of losing your job might feel just as threatening as if a speeding truck were coming at you.

    By Tom FergusonMarch 1979
    The Sun Interview

    An Interview With Warren Barrett

    The name “Storybook Farm” came when I was reading to my kids one night, and in the middle of this book, there was a picture of this farm. When I saw the picture I said, “Oh wow, how beautiful! One of these days, we’re going to have a place just like that. A storybook farm.”

    By Elizabeth Rose CampbellJanuary 1979
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    An Interview With Peter Caddy

    I live in the moment. Fully in the moment, not worrying about the next day or thinking about the past day. So there are certain techniques that one learns. I thoroughly enjoy life. I enjoy what I am doing, and I know that I am guided step by step, and all that needs to happen, happens.

    By Elizabeth Rose Campbell, Sy SafranskyAugust 1978
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