I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.
Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, Write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks. Now, I remember only the flavor-- not like food, sweet or sharp. More like a fine powder, like dust. And I wasn't elated or frightened, but simply rapt, aware. That's how it is sometimes-- God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had a couple of weeks in the country for a union installation and they had educational programs and all sorts of things. There was a life, you know, a real community.