Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Rules to live by........
Life is SHORT...so BREAK the rules, FORGIVE quickly, KISS slowly, LOVE truly, LAUGH uncontrollably and never REGRET anything that once made you smile........
Know yourself and be yourself
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.I accepted their answers too, they were often in contradiction and self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone questions which only I can answer.It took me a long time and much pain to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:that I am nobody but myself.
Just be yourself, because who you are and what you are becoming is far more important than you can fully understand.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
From Baron Baptiste
The Two Wolves: One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, fear, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, self doubt, feeling inferior, lies, false pride, superiority, arrogance, and excessive ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, potential, confidence, commitment, inner knowing, trust, and faith.
'
The grand son thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
'Which wolf wins?'
The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'
He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, fear, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, self doubt, feeling inferior, lies, false pride, superiority, arrogance, and excessive ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, potential, confidence, commitment, inner knowing, trust, and faith.
'
The grand son thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
'Which wolf wins?'
The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'
Awareness is boundless
"Awareness has no frontier; it is a giving of your whole being, without exclusion. .....and awareness, which is total and excludes nothing, are states of mind that can be understood only by objective, non prejudiced observation."
Bruce Lee
You find truth when you have the patience to simply sit still and observe. In your breath, in your body, in the beauty of the simple pleasures of life. Learn to observe and accept thing's as they are, good or bad, light or dark
Knowing there are no boundaries between yourself and other's, between your spirit and God's. That everything is simply connected and we are all simply human. And that is a very good thing to be! Destined to realize our full potential, if we are objective about ourselves and learn first and foremost to accept ourselve's this is often the best foundation for our personal growth.
To not be happy with stagnation but to lovingly guide ourselve's into fullness and contentment, knowing very often that your best teacher can be yourself! And giving yourself permission to trust in your own wisdom, your own intuition. This is a form of honest self expression and has a way of bringing out the best in us. And when we give generously to ourselve's, we are in a place to give to other's.
An awareness that we all have a unique expression of the soul to bring forth and that we are powerful beyond word's. Not the power to hurt, but to love and to inspire other's.
And dont be distressed if life has brought you 'bad' thing's lately. Choose to have awareness of what you can learn from it. this is often life's way of waking us up to live more fully free of attachement's. Often when we think something 'bad' happened it's God's way of releasing us from the very attachment's that made us miserable to begin with. It also serves to expand our awareness.
Think about it....
Bruce Lee
You find truth when you have the patience to simply sit still and observe. In your breath, in your body, in the beauty of the simple pleasures of life. Learn to observe and accept thing's as they are, good or bad, light or dark
Knowing there are no boundaries between yourself and other's, between your spirit and God's. That everything is simply connected and we are all simply human. And that is a very good thing to be! Destined to realize our full potential, if we are objective about ourselves and learn first and foremost to accept ourselve's this is often the best foundation for our personal growth.
To not be happy with stagnation but to lovingly guide ourselve's into fullness and contentment, knowing very often that your best teacher can be yourself! And giving yourself permission to trust in your own wisdom, your own intuition. This is a form of honest self expression and has a way of bringing out the best in us. And when we give generously to ourselve's, we are in a place to give to other's.
An awareness that we all have a unique expression of the soul to bring forth and that we are powerful beyond word's. Not the power to hurt, but to love and to inspire other's.
And dont be distressed if life has brought you 'bad' thing's lately. Choose to have awareness of what you can learn from it. this is often life's way of waking us up to live more fully free of attachement's. Often when we think something 'bad' happened it's God's way of releasing us from the very attachment's that made us miserable to begin with. It also serves to expand our awareness.
Think about it....
Accept there's thing's you just cant change....
"Some things in life just don't work out. No matter how bad you want it, or how bad you work towards it, it just doesn't work the way you want it to. But excepting this and realizing that trying to hold on to what can't be, only inhibits what could be, and will make your life that much better. Don't blame yourself for other peoples actions and don't hold grudges, only hold lessons."- Travis Hays
Life is sooo much more peaceful when we stop trying to force life to go 'our way' and instead focus on letting the best in life come to us. Ironically enough, when you stop impatiently searching for what you want is when you often find what you truly need.
Life is sooo much more peaceful when we stop trying to force life to go 'our way' and instead focus on letting the best in life come to us. Ironically enough, when you stop impatiently searching for what you want is when you often find what you truly need.
Monday, June 21, 2010
A personal letter to a friend...reflecting my deeper thoughts on yoga and life
I was thinking about what you said RE: meeting people and the up's and down's of life, about your odvious dissapointment and the shallow thing's people say and do. I just know from my own experience in life, love
and yoga so much pain is caused 'cause we try to make thing's happen instead of letting life unfold to us organically in time.
Im not trying to judge you, or arrogantly assume too much about you. Beside's, I've done the same thing sooo many times's!
The point is: i've been doin' yoga for over two year's and so much i got in own way! HOW? I tried to force my body into different poses and saw it as some kind of competition....but then.. one day i learned to actually let go ,in my mind, in my body and soul.
This led to a personal epiphiny of self realization and self empowerment.Then, my body opened naturally on it's own, in it's own time..when i got my ego out of the way, so many poses became near effortless. I also made huge gains in physical and mental endurance.
Life is like that too, often when we stop trying so hard, let go and let God. Then, good thing's happen. Sometime's the best chance's in life come when were just patiently letting life unfold to us...
Dont know what's gonna happen, and that's ok.When we let go of our desire's they often come to pass.
I just know there's a reason for everything in life. And we cross path's with people for a reason.
think about it....Im just wanted to share what was on my heart, because like my blog, i enjoy sharing what's significant to me..and trust start's somewhere. (I said i was bold. ha ha)
When we try to force the rose to open before it's time we destroy it's beauty and full potential, thus we suffer when we treat our soul's and the soul's of other's the same way...
The mountain alway's bring's a better perspective than the valley, to bring the refereshing of new vision.
Bringing clarity..
Hope this was helpful and encouraging..Brad
and yoga so much pain is caused 'cause we try to make thing's happen instead of letting life unfold to us organically in time.
Im not trying to judge you, or arrogantly assume too much about you. Beside's, I've done the same thing sooo many times's!
The point is: i've been doin' yoga for over two year's and so much i got in own way! HOW? I tried to force my body into different poses and saw it as some kind of competition....but then.. one day i learned to actually let go ,in my mind, in my body and soul.
This led to a personal epiphiny of self realization and self empowerment.Then, my body opened naturally on it's own, in it's own time..when i got my ego out of the way, so many poses became near effortless. I also made huge gains in physical and mental endurance.
Life is like that too, often when we stop trying so hard, let go and let God. Then, good thing's happen. Sometime's the best chance's in life come when were just patiently letting life unfold to us...
Dont know what's gonna happen, and that's ok.When we let go of our desire's they often come to pass.
I just know there's a reason for everything in life. And we cross path's with people for a reason.
think about it....Im just wanted to share what was on my heart, because like my blog, i enjoy sharing what's significant to me..and trust start's somewhere. (I said i was bold. ha ha)
When we try to force the rose to open before it's time we destroy it's beauty and full potential, thus we suffer when we treat our soul's and the soul's of other's the same way...
The mountain alway's bring's a better perspective than the valley, to bring the refereshing of new vision.
Bringing clarity..
Hope this was helpful and encouraging..Brad
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