“As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.” B.K.S. Iyengar In studying Yoga, teachers of all traditions will advise students to be still after certain positions in order to feel the benefit of the pose. This is a great...
“We survive…and then we die.” Ojibway Elder Nothing escapes the Creator’s cycle. Not plants, horses, trees, birds or human beings. Not the life of the mind. Not the life of the heart. Not the life of the spirit. All living things emerge, gather, spark new life, fall...
“The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.” Parker J. Palmer Everyone has an inner life; it’s just a matter of opening it. What Parker Palmer wisely suggests is that we can only feel something...
“I felt angry toward my friend. I told my wrath. My wrath did end. I felt angry toward my foe. I told him not. My wrath did grow.” William Blake True inner responsibility centers on our willingness to give voice to whatever is happening to us in the midst of a...
In a world that lives like a fist, mercy is no more than waking with your hands open. So much can happen with our hands open. In fact, closing and stubbornly maintaining our grip is often what keeps us stuck, though we want to blame everything and everyone else,...
