James Fox Citas

• Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

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  Sadness, Feelings, Weakness

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• Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

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  Meaningful, New York, Believe

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• Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

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  Yoga, Práctica, Clase

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• I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

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  Important, Prison, Sixth Sense

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• When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.

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  Philosophy, Real, Moving

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• The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.

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  Strong, Growing Up, Mean

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• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

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  Self, Practice, Trying

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• It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

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  Punishment, Despair, Absence

  James Fox (1996). “Killer on Campus”

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• Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.

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  Mother, Loving Life, Wife

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• Enseño que la base de nuestra práctica es poder ir hacia dentro y desconectar del ajetreo de nuestros pensamientos, que centrar la mente en las sensaciones corporales y la respiración nos enraizará en el momento presente. El yoga consiste en darte cuenta de quién eres realmente, aparte de tu personalidad.

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  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.

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  Race, Yards, Levels

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• If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.

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  Energy, Moments, Awake

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• El noventa por ciento de lo que hacen la mayoría de los profesores de yoga es enseñar la práctica de asanas. Aunque las asanas descargan el estrés, entre otras cosas, nunca se pretendió que fueran una práctica independiente. La verdadera intención del yoga es la transformación personal. Lo que obtenemos del privilegio de enseñar a los presos es la oportunidad de centrarnos en nuestro propio desarrollo personal. Puedes prestar un servicio y, mientras ayudas a los demás a transformar sus vidas, tienes la oportunidad más profunda de transformar la tuya. Lo que enseñamos en la cárcel es cómo vivimos nuestras vidas.

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  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

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• You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

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  Self, Giving, Thank God

  James Fox (2012). “White Mischief”, p.195, Random House

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• There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

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  People, Assumption, Made

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