-Protect the Web of Life -The Goddess wants you to be abundant
-Beauty is not a luxury, but a spiritual necessity
-Live into Creativity and Vision
-Don't put Yoga in a box - connect to and have a relationship with Nature
-Honor the Moon and her cycles
-Rest while menstrating and practice being a Moon Goddess (support a woman who is)
-Trust your intuition and in your body
-Honor the Inner Shakti, the Creative Force as liberating and strengthening
-Work collaboratively - share with you sister
-Community - the Guru of the future
-Honor the Dark, Grief, and Emotions
-Give yourself time for Bliss, Dance and Play!
Laurel Cornell, The Green Yoga Association
No Harm - The Boxer Rebellion on The Cold Still
Maybe there's no use Things been like they used to And maybe there's no use The way it was before And if I found time Go away the old way And if we found time But wanted more, more...[Chorus] Maybe there's no harm, There's no harm, There's no harm in Maybe there's no harm There's no harm in you An' maybe there's no harm, There's no harm, There's no harm in So watch what you say, There's a beast that's in me
I'm the true recluse, Blissful as a loner, And all that we have left Is never lied for Delivered on a word Never near the target Seen for what it was And never eye to eye
[Chorus]
You stand by Watching the world Then you down And maybe there's no harm, There's no harm, There's no harm in Maybe there's no harm, There's no harm in you, And maybe there's no harm, There's no harm, There's no harm in So watch what you say, There's a beat that's in me
Until the heart becomes an inlet, it cannot be free.
It is true, there is such sadness in the world. But there is a difference between feeling the pain of things breaking, ending, or drifting apart, and the sharper pain that comes from measuring the inevitable events of life against some ideal of how we imagine things are supposed to be. In receiving hardships this way, life is always falling off. Life is hard enough without viewing all our pain as evidence of some basic insufficiency we must endure.
There is a beautiful Tibetan myth that helps us to accept our sadness as a threshold to all that is life - changing and lasting. This myth affirms that all spiritual warriors have a broken heart - alas, must have a broken heart - because it is only through the break that the wonder and mysteries of life can enter us.
So what does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It is far from being a soldier, but more the sincerity with which a soul faces itself in a daily way. It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.
-Mark Nepo, from The Book of Awakening
