“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” Oprah Winfrey Tom has this big dream. It’s amazing, enormous and absolutely fantastic. His best attribute is casting the vision for this beatific project. When he tells you the why behind his vision, you feel it in your soul. You find […]
Category: Authenticity
Let go
“Love is what’s left when you let go of absolutely everything you don’t need.” Erich Shiffman “I can’t let go of everything. What will I be? I don’t want to be a non entity.” I completely get it. What would it look like if I were to let go of everything? Would I become nothing? […]
Freedom
“Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last. ” Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently I’ve been thinking about freedom. In a previous post, we talked about how God’s will for us is to be happy, joyous and free. But free from what? I think it’s freedom from our selfish little ambitions […]
Self love
I was lying in savasana and my throat was all tight, tears were threatening to come pouring out of my closed eyes the thought came, “I did this to me. What is wrong with me that I would eat myself into 20 lbs? Don’t I care about myself at all?” After class I broke down […]
Harmony
“I’d like to teach the world to sing/ in perfect harmony.” I was in yoga class the other day and the teacher played a track of music and asked us to chant with it. The whole class was chanting in unison, matching the same pitch as the leader, but her pitch was higher than my […]
Joy
“May our hearts open to know love, and may that love guide us into the depths of our deepest joy. May that joy be peace.” Seane Corn As I was growing up I was told that God had a plan for my life. I viewed God’s plan as a script, just give me the script, […]
Self Righteousness
“Relieve me of the bondage of self…” Third Step Prayer “Why does your friend’s behavior upset you so much?” She said, “Because she shouldn’t be doing this stuff, it’s bad for her.” “Yes, but why are you so upset?” “I don’t know!” she said. “Maybe I’m feeling self righteous. She could be….” She went on […]
