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Welcome to your body.
Fall with awareness and acceptance.
Learn to take pleasure in the search.
Be gentle with everything in your life.
Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.
Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.
Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.
Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.
Without challenges, there would be no opportunity to evolve.
Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.
It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.
Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.
Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.
We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.
If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.
Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.
Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am.
Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.
There is nothing wrong with what he said or she said or they did, even though it does not feel good.
Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
Jesus said "love," "forgive," have "compassion" and "don't judge." Buddha said "observe," "be silent," and "serve."
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
We are acting on our desire; there is nothing wrong. Just remember if it does not pan out, if our desires go unfulfilled, it's perfect!
Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.
It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.
Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet.
Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.
Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.
One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.
Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.
If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.
The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.
Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.
I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"
Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.
If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.
There is nothing that exists, that is not existing perfectly, which includes every thought we have, every word we speak, and every action we commit. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with me, with you, with them.
It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.
If we want to try again, then try again. The point is we have free will to act and accomplish along with the peace of knowing whatever happens is what needs to happen in order for nature to fulfill its destiny, which we are part of.
We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected.
Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?