Just breathe!
Several weeks ago I finally heeded the call of the instructors to breathe throughout the entire series of poses and what a difference! With greater ease I now go deeper into every pose than ever before. I have been practicing Bikram Yoga since March and I can say that breathing throughout the class, as simple …
The Spirit of the Warrior
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom. Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage but are sculpted and eroded into …
I love you for what you are
I love you for what you are but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for you realities, as for your ideas I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than your satisfactions which may be so hazardously little. A satisfied …
Anyway
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere …
Letter to a Friend
I salute you. I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got; but there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take. No Heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take …
I’m home
Everything is fine because I’m here now, fresh flower smiling in your hair. This pure white song reaches up into the sky and peace settles on your face. I’m a little scared of what is next to come, but every window of my soul is open. Oh if angels come, if angels come, when the …
Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for …
The Awakening
A time comes in your life when you finally get it – when in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out – ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after …
