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

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

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

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

The truth is that any intentional movement toward presence, even when you relapse into trance, interrupts old patterning and serves your healing - Tara Brach I shared this in my yoga class, and today I found this article , "Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness", where she quotes Rilke. It’s here in all the pieces of my shame That now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained In an all-embracing mind that sees me... —Rainer Maria Rilke Glimpse I

Thanks so much to my dear friend Brynna Hurwitz for sharing this with me, and for reading it today in class. When I run after what I...

Today I opened randomly "The Essential Rumi", and my eyes fell into this poem. I have been listening to a beautiful piano solo by Johan...

I first read this poem in the beautiful compilation "Risking Everything 110 Poems of Love and Revelation". Here it is: This Much I Do...

My sister Lourdes shared these lines in our yoga class, excerpt from the poem "Sobremesa", by Rosario Castellanos. Gracias Lourdes!...

I have been using these lines as inspiration during my meditation: “Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent."...

Thanks to my dear friend Monica Korde, Poet Laureate of Belmont and a wonderful person, for sharing this poem with me. A Center By Ha Jin...

This poem found me again a couple days ago. Thank you Toni Goodman, for sharing it with us at your Poetry circle, years ago. Poetry has a...

Going through some pages of "The Essential Rumi" , translation by Coleman Barks, I encounter this very familiar, very short and profound...

No better love than love with no object, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness,...

I spent some time yesterday coloring a mandala, and really enjoyed it. While I was coloring it, it occurred to me that it may be a waste...

This is one of my favorite quotes by T.K.V. Desikachar, my teachers' teacher: "There is one rule to follow regarding rest: if we need a...

I have been keeping "The Essential Rumi" by my bedside for the past weeks. Here is a poem that has been calling my attention. Favorite...

Preparing for an in person workshop in Lake Oswego, Oregon, went to visit again some of my favorite quotes. the workshop is called...

Wonderful to go back and read some poems from the incredible book "Mala Of The Heart" , here is this one by Kabir: I felt in need of a...

I receive emails from a great organization based in the UK that I'm part of, called "The Society of Yoga Practitioners"...