01 January 2010

2009, etc...


This past year has been filled with powerful learnings around
Trust, Detachment, Inner Peace...
Joy, Curiosity, Listening, Awareness...
Communication, Observation, Acceptance, Action...
For it all, Blessed and Grateful am I.

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if you're not having fun, why do it.

life is hard. once you accept that, it ceases to be so.
(m. scott peck)

you don't do yoga to get a better body.
you do yoga to learn to love the body you have.
(eddie, yoga soup)

try to marry inner peace with creating a soulful world.
(joan chittister)

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As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
To hear in the distance the laughter of God.

(from A Blessing For Equilibrium, by John O’Donohue)

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A few reminders about friendship from a wise,
spirit-filled young woman I know...

be the friend you'd want them to be.

it’s better to be disliked or made fun of for who you really are than
to be loved for who you aren’t.

your friends encourage you to be a better person, not cause you to be a worse one.

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I want my life to be one of love, not rage
Kindness, not contempt
Joy, not suffering
I want to be alive and present in this moment,
not lost in thought and delusion.
- Zen poem

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