Resting Into Paradox
Part of the difficulty with humans is that we just don’t know how to be okay with paradox. We have an impulse towards linear, black or white thinking and can’t seem to wrap our heads around [...]
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06, 2013
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06, 2013
The Good Traveler Has No Fixed Plans
When Lao Tsu says “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving,” he is not saying the good traveler has no plans at all. He is not suggesting the spiritual traveler [...]
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06, 2013
Moving With The Currents, We Travel Softly
There is a universal stream. We know we are riding the current when things fall into place. We know we are swimming upstream when our effort begins to cost us – when we are tight, rigid, [...]
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06, 2013
Though We May Be Left Behind, We Are Never Alone
We’ve all had people who’ve walked away from us. Sometimes the leaving was painful, sometimes a relief, and sometimes, both. How we digest that Outer World experiences into our Inner World experience can be the difference [...]
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06, 2013
Yoga Is About Self-Acceptance, Not Self-Improvement
I have been practicing yoga for about 20 years, some years with more consistency than others. And I have been a yoga teacher for over ten years, again, some years teaching more than others. The way [...]
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06, 2013
Even A Box of Darkness Can Be A Gift
When Mary Oliver says, “Someone I loved gave me a box of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift,” she is not suggesting that we not rage against the darkness, [...]
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06, 2013
Become The Ocean Or Be Seasick
We all know what it is like to be ungrounded. To feel out of sorts and out of control of some aspect of our lives or of other people. We all know the suffering of having [...]
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06, 2013
Your Mind Is A Garden: Tend It Well
In order for a body to be at its best, it needs healthy food full of vital nutrients. When we feed our bodies unhealthful food, they will function, but not as well; And the long-term harm [...]
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05, 2013
Comparing Ourselves To Others – part II
The flip side to comparing ourselves to others and finding ourselves ‘less than,’ is comparing ourselves to others so we can feel superior. Again, here, the process to work with our egoistic comparing states is not [...]
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05, 2013
Comparing Ourselves To Others Sets Us Up For Failure
I woke up this morning, got online, and discovered a peer of mine was running a workshop that is well-received enough that others are flying in to take it. I could have been joyful for her [...]
