While speaking to a dear friend about a certain tendency I have (both in life and in art) to get caught up in my own feelings and fears about "how well I am doing", she offered me the following analogy: (oh wise woman that she is)... if I were sitting here with you, she said, and all I was thinking about was how best to advise you, what the right thing to say was, what the best way to say it was, if I was helping you enough or in the right way...I wouldn't have all the ideas and images and feelings that I am having now. And I wouldn't be here with you.
Favorite teacher Bryn quoted Osho the other day regarding effort...in a nutshell: Effort might get you to New Delhi, but it won't get you to the infinite.
And yesterday in class, a newer teacher, one whom I never taken from before, speaking on ahimsa (non-violence): make a vow to stop harming yourself, she said, and take all of that energy that you have been using every day to criticize and berate, and use it to do all those things you want to do, but beat yourself up for not having done already.
May we all give up just a little bit of effort today.
While speaking to a dear friend about a certain tendency I have (both in life and in art) to get caught up in my own feelings and fears about "how well I am doing", she offered me the following analogy: (oh wise woman that she is)... if I were sitting here with you, she said, and all I was thinking about was how best to advise you, what the right thing to say was, what the best way to say it was, if I was helping you enough or in the right way...I wouldn't have all the ideas and images and feelings that I am having now. And I wouldn't be here with you.
Favorite teacher Bryn quoted Osho the other day regarding effort...in a nutshell: Effort might get you to New Delhi, but it won't get you to the infinite.
And yesterday in class, a newer teacher, one whom I never taken from before, speaking on ahimsa (non-violence): make a vow to stop harming yourself, she said, and take all of that energy that you have been using every day to criticize and berate, and use it to do all those things you want to do, but beat yourself up for not having done already.
May we all give up just a little bit of effort today.
That's my wish for you.
Namaste,
YogaLia