Tag Archives: spirituality I guess
Regrets Only
“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”
I read this quote today and it stopped me mid-page. It is the exact opposite of how I have lived my life until now and surprised me with how deeply it resonated.
When I was a teenager, I decided that my goal was to live [...]
Numb and Number
I just spent an hour and several hundred words all trying to get to this point: I am never surprised when I hear about people divorcing. In the past six months there have been several divorces and separations in the immediate vicinity. None have surprised me, even among the couples who were picture perfect on [...]
Mixed Thinks
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In a yoga class a few weeks ago, a teacher read this from Krishnamurti:
“Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
As a kid, I was praised for being more mature than the other kids, and while that may have been true, somehow I got my aloofness all [...]
Intention + Surrender = Dedication
These concepts have been leitmotifs in my life for a while now:
1. Intention
2. Surrender
3. Sacredness
I was at the gym listening to a podcast from Gil Fronsdal on intention. (At one time, these podcasts were my usual soundtrack at the gym, and I remember a co-worker of mine finding it really amusing that my idea of [...]
Stillness
Today was day five of a seven day hot yoga marathon. There is no one good reason why I am doing this, other than feeling like I need a little detox, particularly before the crazy kicks off next week. I did this once before, sometime last year, and I don’t remember it having quite as [...]
Time
In the car on the way up to Philly yesterday morning, it hit me again: there is not enough time.
This has been happening a lot lately. Mortality has been hanging there; it’s an almost physical presence urging me on, to go, go, go, because there is no time to waste.
It could be a big birthday [...]
Intermission
This morning Scott got a call from one of his best friends with news that he is divorcing. Scott was surprised. I was not. It is not that there was anything this couple did to make me think that their twenty-five year relationship had passed its peak, it is only that I learned a long [...]
One More Thing
I feel like there is one more thing I need to add for 2010: the recognition that at the end of the year I could have accomplished nothing on my list, and still be looking back at the most amazing year ever. I have my list -my dharma- and also my willingness to be amazed [...]
One Foot in the Past, One Foot in the Future
Sometime in the middle of May of last year, I got this intense feeling that things were about to change, that there was a major transition happening. I didn’t know then that the transition I was feeling was going to carry me through the rest of the year, and it is still just getting started. [...]
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