On Pain and Suffering: The Balance of Effort and Surrender
How Soon Can you Let it Be Over? If there is one thing yoga has taught me, it is self-awareness. In fact, at the very heart of the science of yoga is self-study, with the understanding that to know yourself is to know others. A grand and liberating discovery we often make in this journey of self-discovery is that we create our own suffering. I have found, over the years that reactions to that statement vary. People who are in the habit of thinking like victims don’t alway


Remembering
Don’t fidget, be still
Release your will
No judgement or anticipation
So nice to let go of it all for a little while
There is no rapture or ecstasy
No remarkable landscape
No fear or doubt
Just the subtle truth that was always there
You don’t need to have some special gift of “vision” or “intuition”
Steer clear of those who would show off these “gifts” like circus tricks
It’s just another illusion, a side show, another distraction
The truth is at the core of all th