Was reminded of this as I prepared for my current Teacher Training — such a beautiful reflection for Yoga and life. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” — T.S. Eliot I first recall hearingContinue reading “Reading: T.S. Eliot”
Category Archives: Readings
Reading: Metamorphosis — Happy Fall!
Gil Hedley, Integral Anatomy posted on Facebook 9/1/2016: “Sometimes we need to re-tool ourselves. The way you have operated no longer serves you or those around you. How you will function without those old ways you haven’t a clue. Still, any more action based on that dated operating system is untenable, grating. It takes aContinue reading “Reading: Metamorphosis — Happy Fall!”
Reading: Why aren’t you meditating yet?
Great read and meditation inspiration: “Neuroscience of Meditation: How To Make Your Mind Awesome” “A good quick way to see it from a neuroscience perspective is as “attention training.” (You know, attention. That thing none of us has anymore.)”
Reading: Stumblers
“… in a culture that consistently mistakes perfection for wholeness, we are discouraged from dancing with the brokenness, messiness, and imperfection of our interior lives — and yet only when do so can we begin to feel whole and measure our lives in terms of deep meaning rather than superficial success.” – Maria Popova ThisContinue reading “Reading: Stumblers”
Reading: Fearlessness
From The Sacred Path of the Warrior: “For the warrior, the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. However, we are not talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. RealContinue reading “Reading: Fearlessness”
Reading: “Simply be present…”
“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.” — Pema Chödrön
Reading: Right and Wrong
More wisdom from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times: “There is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn’t have what it takes to wake up. We all need support and encouragement to be aware of what we think,Continue reading “Reading: Right and Wrong”
Reading: When Things Fall Apart…again
Revisited my notes last week from Pema Chödrön‘s “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times” when saw it was her 80th birthday and 20th anniversary of the book – timeless…and timely: “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t reallyContinue reading “Reading: When Things Fall Apart…again”
Reading: Self-efficacy
My last post on teaching reminded me of this favorite from Sharon Salzberg’s The Force of Kindness: “’People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities….Ability is not a fixed property…there is huge variability in it; people who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms ofContinue reading “Reading: Self-efficacy”
Reading: Reflections on Teaching — Intention and Perseverence
“Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.” – Sharon Salzberg When I shared this in classes itContinue reading “Reading: Reflections on Teaching — Intention and Perseverence”