Never Shut Up: The Daily Tori Amos Show
Oct 21, 2026 · 9 min · 7 segments
Discipline, discretion and forearm plank -- Moby - Extreme Ways (live at Valbyhallen 2002)
Rose KressHost
You know, those squires of dimnesses from yesterday, the darker side of life and how seductive it is.
It's this sense of, well, giving into our desires and the way those darker side of life desires, well, they can be very destructive in our personal lives.
And So we don't want to give in to our desires because these cravings can lead us astray from what is important to us.
Now, that said, maybe your desires in life are, you know, to like go down to the underside and underworld and, you know, just play around in that.
I mean, like far be it for me to tell you that you shouldn't be doing that, right? I don't know.
takes all kinds, right? But what yoga tells us about this is that our desires are something that we, you know, are cravings, something that we do to fill a hole, H-O-L-E, and the hole is, well, the belief that we are not whole, W-H-O-L-E.
But in any case, the way that
we need to remain focused or not get so caught up in our desires is through discipline and discernment.
It means understanding that something is not good for you, that something is good for you.
It's, well, discernment is telling the truth when maybe a momentary lie would be easier to do.
Discernment is speaking truth to power, rather than just going along with the status quo, even though it's uncomfortable, even though it might actually be painful to speak truth to power, and you might, well, people might come after you for that.
Within yoga, viveka is, you know, like, oh, this is a good practice for my body, or I need to meditate.
You know, those squires of dimnesses from yesterday, the darker side of life and how seductive it is.
It's this sense of, well, giving into our desires and the way those darker side of life desires, well, they can be very destructive in our personal lives.
And So we don't want to give in to our desires because these cravings can lead us astray from what is important to us.
Now, that said, maybe your desires in life are, you know, to like go down to the underside and underworld and, you know, just play around in that.
I mean, like far be it for me to tell you that you shouldn't be doing that, right? I don't know.
takes all kinds, right? But what yoga tells us about this is that our desires are something that we, you know, are cravings, something that we do to fill a hole, H-O-L-E, and the hole is, well, the belief that we are not whole, W-H-O-L-E.
But in any case, the way that
we need to remain focused or not get so caught up in our desires is through discipline and discernment.
It means understanding that something is not good for you, that something is good for you.
It's, well, discernment is telling the truth when maybe a momentary lie would be easier to do.
Discernment is speaking truth to power, rather than just going along with the status quo, even though it's uncomfortable, even though it might actually be painful to speak truth to power, and you might, well, people might come after you for that.
Within yoga, viveka is, you know, like, oh, this is a good practice for my body, or I need to meditate.
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