CARD OF THE NIGHT INDECISION I use my intuition in all aspects of life Your soul is Spirit manifest in this physical dimension. Even though you may feel limited by the constraints of your body, your connection to the infinite wisdom of the Universe is always available to you in the form of intuition. You … Continue reading November 13; Everything comes from within
Morning Read Chapter 2 rituals of preparation I begin each day of my life with a ritual: I wake up at 5:30 A.M., put on my workout clothes, my leg warmers, my sweatshirts, and my hat. I walk outside my Manhattan home, hail a taxi and tell the driver to take me to the Pumping … Continue reading November 7th: Rituals of preparation
Card of the Day GENEROSITY I give generously to those around me, no matter how much (or how little) I have. I know there is more than enough to go around, and that the key is to allow it to keep going around without stopping. If I stop the flow, I'm like the one person … Continue reading November 5th, 2018
p.5 A man's as miserable as he thinks he is _ Seneca Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think _ Einstein p.13 What is more sinister, materialism correlates with serious psychological issues such as depression, narcissism and paranoia, a correlation exposed by researchers Kasser and ryan, … Continue reading Happiness Animal
To one of discrimination, everything is painful indeed, due to its consequences: the anxiety and fear over losing what is gained; the resulting impressions left in the mind to create renewed cravings; and the constant conflict among the tree gunas, which control the mind. Here, Patanjali gives a very important sutra and a great truth in the spiritual … Continue reading detachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKNL6FQs4Y p.49 23. There was a danger that Chloe and I would trap ourselves in just such a Marxist spiral. But a happier resolution emerged. I returned home from the breakfast guilty, shamfaced, apologetic, and ready to do anything to win Chloe back. It wasn't easy. She hung up on me at first, then asked … Continue reading Acceptance and Self-Love
Egoism is the identification, as it were, of the power of the Seer (Purusa) with that of the instrument of seeing [body-mind]. In this sutra Patanjali explains egoism. The ego is the reflection of the true Self on the mind. The two appear to be the same, but one is the original, the other a reflected duplicate. … Continue reading I and i
33. Maitri karuna muditopeksanam sukha duhkha punyapunya visayanam bhavanatas citta prasadanam. By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness. Whether you are interested in reaching samadhi or plan to ignore Yoga entirely, I would advise you to remember at … Continue reading FRIENDLINESS
These stuck with me from what I read and heard today: — Union with God is the real Yoga — Freedom comes from once you completely surrender yourself to God — The universe will conspire with you to create the right people and the right things and it all shows up I don't think it's … Continue reading Freedom Comes from Complete Surrender
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali p.3 The rest of the sutras only explain this one: If the restraint of the mental modifications is achieved, one has reached the goal of Yoga. p.4 Normally, the word Yoga is translated as "union," but for a union there should be two things to unite. In this case, what … Continue reading Monkey mind and Ahaṃkāra
Universe of Dahee 