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"Path", by Jack Hirschman
Path by Jack Hirschman Go to your broken heart. If you think you don’t have one, get one. To get one, be sincere. Learn sincerity of intent by letting life enter because you’re helpless, really, to do otherwise. Even as you try escaping, let it take you and tear you open like a letter sent like a sentence inside you've waited for all your life though you’ve committed nothing. Let it send you up. Let it break you, heart. Broken-heartedness is the beginning of all real receptio
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7 days ago1 min read


On Dancing & the Brain, quote by Nazareth Castellanos
During our Yoga Therapy for Brain Health session today, I shared this quote, which is originally in Spanish: "You may not know it, but your brain dances with you every time you move. When a song comes on and you let the body respond, something profound happens inside you, your neurons begin to synchronize as if they were following the same beat. Dancing is not just moving your body, it is a dialogue between mind, emotion and rhythm, and science confirms it. Dancing can heal y
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Nov 101 min read


On The Value of Our Efforts, quotes by Tara Brach and from Bhagavad Gita
If you ever feel that your efforts are falling short, read these quotes. The truth is that any intentional movement toward presence, even when you relapse into trance, interrupts old patterning and serves your healing - Tara Brach On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. - Bhagavad Gita Read same quote by Tara Brach with link to one of her articles on this
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Nov 71 min read


"On Meditating, Sort Of", by Mary Oliver
Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished if you entertain a certain strict posture. Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree. So why should I think I could ever be successful? Some days I fall asleep, or land in that even better place — half asleep — where the world, spring, summer, autumn, winter — flies through my mind in its hardy ascent and its uncompromising descent. So I just lie like that, while distance and time reveal their true attitudes: they never hear
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Nov 41 min read
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