When the energy simply flows through us, just as it flows through the grass and the trees and the ravens and the bears and the moose and the ocean and the rocks, we discover that we are not solid at all. If we sit still like the mountain Gampo Lhatse in a hurricane, if we don’t protect ourselves from the trueness and the vividness and the immediacy and the lack of confirmation of simply being part of life, then we are not this separate being who has to have things turn out our way.
The essence of the fourth noble truth is the eightfold path. Everything we do — our discipline, effort, meditation, livelihood, and every single thing that we do from the moment we’re born until the moment we die — we can use to help us to realize our unity and our completeness with all things. We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we’re not separate: the energy that causes us to live and be whole and awake and alive is just the energy that creates everything, and we’re part of that. We can use our lives to connect with that, or we can use them to become resentful, alienated, resistant, angry, bitter. As always, it’s up to us.
—Awakening Loving-Kindness Pema Chodron
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. — Adrienne Rich
Asana is to be seated in a position which is firm but relaxed. — Yoga Sutras
In our culture, results get all the attention and the process is overlooked. Approach both your life and your postures with an eye to the process, and let go of the results. Stand easy in all the postures of your life, firm but relaxed. — Rolf Gates, Meditations from the Mat
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Thank you for this message. I needed it today as I struggle with something very challenging for me. What you’ve posted here is my answer from the Universe. I wish I could always trust what I know without having to depend on cosmic messages from blogs, but for now, this helps a lot.
You’re welcome Kelly. Glad I could do *some* good today – my energy level is so low I’ve accomplished very little here today.