The Importance of Regular Practice

“There is tremendous power in regularity and discipline. It is important to sit every day twice a day and to do your practice. You have to demand that of your life. Otherwise your life will always win. There will always be a reason not to sit.”

– S. Shambhavananda

Words to Inspire!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God.  Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in EVERYONE.As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-1994 Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela 

 

Buddha Garden at Red Ridge Farms - Dundee, Oregon - 5/22/2010

 
Yoga Homework for October 2010 - Autumn

I thought this was the perfect reading for October. I didn’t think I could say it any better myself. I hope you enjoy!

Via Laura Marjorie Miller, on Sep 21, 2010 - Elephant.com.

 

The Beautiful Sadness of Autumn: An Equinoctal Magic.

In the midst of the harvest celebration, what to do with the melancholy of this season?

Fall is a sensory season, heavyladen with beauty: tables overbrimmed with squash and corn, the nightchill that welcomely pings your skin, woodsmoke in the air, cider on your tongue, the faraway horns of a highschool football game. Gosh, it’s gorgeous! and front-loaded for celebration.

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