February 2012
4 posts
“Attachment is watching sand slipping through your fingers and crying at the loss...”
– LazyYogi (via elige)
10 tags
“Dying is a spiritual and psychological necessity, for after a while the...”
– Seth, The Individual Nature of Mass Events (via nirvikalpa)
“To gain greater life, give greater love.”
– Yogi Wongy (via meditatingoutloud)
January 2012
6 posts
6 tags
“Although I may try to describe Love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.”
– Rumi
“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via lucifelle)
“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment,...”
– Alex Grey (via likethesun)
December 2011
6 posts
“We are the universe pretending to be individuals.”
– Deepak Chopra (via nirvikalpa)
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
– Rumi (via singingbowls
)
“God isn’t a noun but a process…a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of...”
– Marianne Williamson
(via yogachocolatelove
)
“The goal? To touch more souls than a dance floor.”
– Wong & Lupe Fiasco (via meditatingoutloud
)
November 2011
10 posts
6 tags
The Special-ness of Yoga
Someone asked me today what was so special about Yoga. A lot of people are curious about my affinity for yoga, but I’ve never had it phrased quite like that…”what is so special about Yoga?”
I felt like the answer needed to do justice to everything that swarmed through me at that moment. Was it the physical practice? Was it the bending and the balance and the sweating and...
“Here is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi
)
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I Want Magic
Every once and a while, you are given moments that remind you that life is exquisite magic. The moments I’m referring to are moments where, for whatever reason, you sink—or, are rather catapulted—into presence: presence of mind, presence of heart, presence of body.
The twirling of a finger is magic because it is no longer the repetitive movement you’ve so often made, but...
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we...”
– Buddha (via audiovisualizer
)
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Von Goethe (via oceanofmind
)
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WatchAn original mashup between an ancient chant to Ganesha (Ganesha Sharanam Sharanam Ganesha Gam Gam Ganapate He Namah Ha), and a Death Cab for Cutie song, “You are a Tourist.” Sometimes you have to mix up some mainstream with your Kirtan. Hey, Ganesh—remove those obstacles!
“We are the cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe...”
– Brian Cox
“To be great, be whole; exclude
Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via parabola-magazine)
September 2011
10 posts
“To be great at everything, start with great breathing.”
– Yogi Wongy (via meditatingoutloud)
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda (via cougarchild)
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“Being mind-full means being conscious of what fills the mind.”
...”
“Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What...”
– Miller Williams (via creatingaquietmind)
“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
– Leonard Cohen (via heartmindspirit)
2 tags
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan (via illuminatedbeing)
5 tags
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings...”
– Teilhard de Chardin (via pantssalsa)
8 tags
August 2011
11 posts
“I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you...”
– Virginia Satir (via heartmindspirit)
3 tags
“The heart is your student
for love is the only way we learn.”
– Rumi (via themagnificentsoil)
4 tags
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
– Japanese Proverb (via thoughtsdetained)
“The world is a journey of falling in love with others, spirituality is a journey...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only...”
– Sufi Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
When the love-soup runs dry
Passion: it’s great. Whatever that passion is, if it ignites fire within—we have an obligation to say, “YES!” to that. If it brings us joy (and I’m not talking about excitement or validation or the feeling of belongingness or pride or any other words we use to equate with joy, I’m talking about pure, quiet-smile, unfettered joy—the kind of joy that leaves...
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The Yolk that is Yoga
One of my favorite things about yoga is that it has become the most important relationship that I have in my life: the relationship between the form and the formless. The four corners of my mat become this incredible threshold for possibility as I step onto it, reach high, and listen as my core starts humming. I suddenly realize the beautiful connection of my energy to the energy of my fellow...
“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via cosmic-cum)
“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things...”
– Zen Proverb
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
– Alfred De Musset (via kari-shma)
July 2011
4 posts
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places...”
– Erica Jong (via kari-shma)
“This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.”
– ~Rumi