tadasana
feet planted solidly
reconnecting to earth
lengthening, strengthening
standing strong and firm and balanced
a stable, powerful foundation — Mountain Pose
From this morning’s yoga practice, a small stone for Day 5.
Colorado
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Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and now.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air. A sharp reminder hits me: this world still is alive; it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation, and I’m part of it. Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give-and-take, this bowing to sun and moon, day and night, winter, summer, storm, still — this tranquil chaos that seems to be going somewhere. This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it. This motionless turmoil, this everything dance.
~ William Stafford
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive — that you can touch the miracle of being alive — then that is a kind of enlightenment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Listen closely.
The eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.~ Jack Kerouac
It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
(Atop Bald Mountain. Boulder, Colorado.)
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
~ Frederick Frank
The markets of the world are flowing with goods and services produced by the interplay of sun and earth, air and water, and the inexhaustible imagination and energy of human beings. Whenever you touch an object made or conveyed by humans, you are touched by all the people who have reached their hands to make this possible for you. Daily use is daily communion.
~ Arthur P. Moor
I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of my dream.~ Henry David Thoreau
If we are not attached to outcomes then we will not suffer from the pain of fallen expectations.
~ Master Cheng Yen
Bountiful Healing 