“I will not let the bullies and critics of my early life win by joining and agreeing with them.” ~Pete Walker For most of my life, there was a voice in my head that narrated everything I did, and it was kind of an a**hole. You know the one. That voice that jumps in...
The night nurse said I should come right away. At 2 a.m., I arrived by Sam’s bedside. The nurse on call said he had “taken a turn for the worse.” He stopped breathing; his heart gave out. There was nothing more they could do. Lying there, he looked so peaceful, quiet....
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.” ~Joseph Campbell My new motto? Always have a backup plan. Life rarely goes as you’d imagined. January 16th, 2001. That’s the day my life trajectory changed...
"Ahhhh." —You, as you practice your favorite pose. The post We Asked You Which Yoga Poses Always Hit. Here’s What You Said. appeared first on Yoga Journal.
The first moments of the day should be peaceful ones. The post This 15-Minute Morning Yin Flow Invites You to Wake Up Slowly appeared first on Yoga Journal.
‘One comes across a weed, and it turns out to be an orchid.’ Zen Master Yunmen
‘Thoughts arise and pass away, The preceding no different from the succeeding. If the succeeding thought does not arise, The preceding thought cuts itself off.’ Niutou Farong
‘Virtue is so feeble; Vice is so powerful and terrible! How can good ever triumph over evil Without the resolve to awaken?’ Acharya Shantideva
Photo by MemoryMan / stock.adobe.com 1. Wat Rong Khung, Thailand By the end of the twentieth century, Thailand’s Wat Rong Khun was in disrepair. As an offering to the Buddha, a local artist used his own money to rebuild it—in white. Photo by William R. Pugsley /...
Bhikkhu Bodhi knows hunger not as a metaphor, but as a memory etched into his body. As a young American monk in the early 1970s, he began his monastic training in rural Sri Lanka at a time when the country was facing a severe economic crisis. This forced the...