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13 Feb 12
There is something hidden underneath that stone of yours. I think I've seen a glimpse. Show me more.
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
- Michelangelo
13 feb 12 @ 8:50 am
14 Jan 12
"Misery is almost always the result of thinking. " - French writer Joseph Joubert
"Doing
as others told me, I was blind.
Coming when others called me, I was lost.
Then I left everyone, including myself.
Then I found everyone, including myself. " Rumi
14 jan 12 @ 8:18 pm
6 Jan 12
This too, shall pass...
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation
is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's just horrible!"
"It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly.
A week later, the student came back to his teacher. "My meditation is wonderful!
I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! It's just wonderful!" "It
will pass," the teacher replied matter-of-factly.
27 Dec 11
Out with the old...
"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year resolutions!" - Joey Adams
"
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and New Years but they really should be worried about what they
eat between New Years and Christmas!" - Author unknown
27 dec 11 @ 9:47 pm
17 Dec 11
Yogi tea and Albert Einstein
"So lange du zweifelst, kannst du den Weg nicht finden. " - Yogi Tea
(As long as you doubt,
you can not find the way.)
And here's a good one from a few days back from my handy, re-usable German calender:
"Man muss diese Welt nicht verstehen. Man muss sich nur darin zurechtfinden.
" - Albert Einstein
(One must not understand the world. One must only deal with it. )
Absolutely
brilliant. And the cool thing is that Einstein was German, so this quote was most likely written auf Deutsch first...
17 dec 11 @ 9:17 am
16 Dec 11
Protect yourself.....from your own thoughts. - Rumi
How, how, how? (With yoga and meditation natuerlich, see class
schedule). And from which ones do I need protection? Only the destructive ones? I like those crazy, dreamy ones...
4 Dec 11
TRUTH...again? Ja wohl.
" All truth passes through 3 stages: First it is ridiculed; then it is violently opposed; Finally,
it is accepted as self-evident. " - Arthur Schopenhouer (1788-1860) German philosopher
11 Nov 11
"Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about everything.
Once we get drunk
on that Love
Whatever will be, will be. " - Rumi
11 nov 11 @ 2:46 pm
1 Nov 11
Some people will forget, others will never forget...
" I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them feel. " - Maya Angelou
1 nov 11 @ 3:48 pm
14 Oct 11
IF YOU REALLY WANT ...
...to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. "
- I don't know the author, but I'm sure as heck quoting them.
10 Oct 11
More on TRUTH...a reoccurring theme that never tires...
"Ugly truth heals better than 'soothing' denial. " -Excerpt from the book, "The
Angry Heart"
- I like that. A lot. Glad someone feels strongly enough about that statement to write it in
their book.
"Let's play Truth or Dare...or just Dare because Nobody tells the truth anymore. "
- One Tree Hill
10 oct 11 @ 6:28 pm
8 Oct 11
"There aren't enough days......in the weekend." - Rod Schmidt
8 oct 11 @ 7:29 pm
6 Oct 11
LIVING
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. "
"Don't
be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions
drown out your own inner voice. " - Steve Jobs
6 oct 11 @ 10:23 am
26 Sep 11
FORGIVENESS
"Forgive others. Forgiveness is the only way to heal your emotional wounds. Forgive those who
hurt you, because you do not want to hurt yourself every time you remember what they did. " Don Miguel Ruiz
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Gandhi
9 Sep 11
If I knew...
" If I knew the way, I would take you home. " Grateful dead lyric (Ripple)
24 Aug 11
Rotten fruit can be salvaged...and made into wine.
"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself." J.
Campbell
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there
lies your treasure." J. Campbell
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors
where there were only walls. " Joseph Campbell
Afterthought: One has to find their bliss
before they can follow it. How does one find their bliss? For me it's in those "A-ha/Ach-so" moments,
those moments that feel right and exciting, when something is right-on-the-money...and feels terrifically comfy. If we
pay attention and recognize those moments, and go back to the environments that trigger those moments,
again and again...we'll eventually find our bliss, or at least the next step in the path leading that way.
(So I think this to be true today.)
But how does one find their bliss when they can barely
breathe? Those are times when "follow your bliss" seems ridiculous, and so out of reach.
Maybe then it is simply a time to learn how to breathe... differently, that is; learn how to focus on the one thing that
we can do automatically without focus (tricky), breathing. The power in the breath; changing the breath patterns, increasing
or decreasing the length of each breath, controlling or simply observing the breath, and even holding the breath,
is just that, powerful. Changes in the breath can have negative and positive results on the functioning of every cell in our
body. So what to do? To retain or not to? We're told growing up that holding the breath is not a good thing to do,
that it causes more stress, tightness and tension to the body etc. And then in advanced yoga trainings, we are taught practices
where you hold the breath, after both inhaling and exhaling. Why? How is it now good for the body and mind? When
can this benefit and when can it harm? I've been wondering this for years. I still don't know; I'm not
a doctor, physiologist or whatever it might take to fully understand. (If any knowledgable sources out there read
this, I would appreciate your input or links to good reading material on this. )
So, starting with the
basics, here is a safe and simple exercise to try during those times of "barely breathing" or
anytime at all, like right now. Now. Time yourself for a minute and count how many breaths you naturally take (11-15ish?).
Then try to decrease that number in the next minute as you deepen every inhale and exhale, drawing in the
abdomen at the end of each exhale, forcing out even more stale air (down to 4-6 breaths?). Try 2 minutes
of this, and see how you feel after a brief period of focused, deeper breathing. More stressed than before,
or more energized yet calmer, with less "stuff" on the mind? Hopefully the latter or don't try this again
at home :-).
Happy Breathing (corny but sincere). - Linda Lu
24 aug 11 @ 10:39 am
18 Aug 11
Elsewhere..
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. " Rumi
16 Aug 11
Kindness:
" It's a little embarrassing to have spent one's entire life pondering the human situation and find
oneself in the end with nothing more profound to say than try to be a little nicer. " Aldous Huxley
16 aug 11 @ 4:13 pm
Love, as defined by Dr. Seuss
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is
compatibile with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. " Dr. Seuss
(Theodore Geisel)
16 aug 11 @ 9:46 am
8 Aug 11
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
" Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened. " Winston Churchill
" The truth will set you free, but first it will make
you miserable. " Jim Davis
" In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. "
Gary Amirault
" It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
" Henry Kissinger
" There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to
refuse to believe what is so. " Soren Kierkegaard
" Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out
for a time, but it ain't goin' away. " Elvis Presley
And lastly...
" The opposite of a correct
statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "
Niels Bohr
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