Everyone prays. Just like everyone worships something. Even the atheists. Just think about the last time you were about to miss a flight. The words, “Please let me make it”, easily roll off the tongues of even the most ardently faithless. Who exactly are you speaking to in that moment? God? The universe? Fate? And…
Read MoreForgiveness is easy to understand as a concept and hard to apply in reality. We all get it in theory, that holding on to grudges only harms ourselves and that operating from anger and resentment is the least likely mindset to achieve one’s desired result. It makes perfect sense. So, why is it so hard…
Read MoreThe world can sometimes be a baffling place. Bad news arrives unexpectedly. Good news comes sporadically. Nothing makes sense. Triggering news headlines, traumatic life events, troubling relationships arrive uninvited. The daily grind has everyone running in place to fruitlessly try to finish a race where the goal posts just keep moving further and further down…
Read MoreLove is both pervasive, spiritual, essential and sometime also utterly cliche. Emblazoned on tank tops and spouted as a kind of pop culture religion, love has many meanings, some of which are useful for spiritual growth and some of which are not. One thing that anyone knows for sure—despite how obvious it may be, we…
Read MoreThe body, and truly all that exists, is not as it seems. The solid state is an illusion created by the mind. The true nature of all is energy. Don’t take my word for it. Believe the nuclear physicists who study the smallest particles. At the sub-atomic level there is more space than anything else….
Read MoreThe origin of the word yoga in Sanskrit comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which means to yoke, join, unite, or add. However, it is entirely too simplistic to say that yoga simply means to unify. The quality of the mind to unify with its object of attention can be either beneficial or harmful to…
Read MoreAt first I was terrified of meditation. Well, it wasn’t really meditation that was scary, it was the idea of facing my my own mind. Before I started yoga I had a few total breakdowns, which could be called psychotic episodes that broke reality off from normalcy and left me at the bottom of a…
Read MoreThere seems to be a war on truth these days. Whether it’s alternative facts or simply radically different interpretations of the same events and experiences, what counts as truth seems fungible. Manipulation of reality and sowing seeds of doubt in a person or targeted group is called gaslighting. Outright denial (lying), trivializing facts, withholding or…
Read MoreI woke up this morning, opened the blinds and saw a huge full rainbow. Filled with wonder I stepped out onto the balcony and let the feeling of blessing in. Rainbows speak of fairytales and grace to me and I always stop and appreciate them whenever I see even the smallest rainbow. People say that…
Read MoreWhat you practice improves. What you don’t practice doesn’t usually improve. The concept of a practice implies that whatever you’re working on is a work in progress. We call yoga a personal practice because the effort of expanding consciousness and awakening is eternal, limitless, and endless. There is actually no mountain top that marks the…
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