During those early morning hours, just before the day is about to begin, the mind is quiet and there is a new sort of availability of air.  We all know this feeling. there is an undeniable freshness that proceeds our awakenings, and our movements about this earth.  Prana is our breath of life, our air that is vital.  The more prana that flows, the more vital we feel, the more vitality in us the outer world sees.  

To recognize this availability of what is new, quiet and fresh, and tap into its vastness, is what can cultivate our most embodied experience of peace.  At the beginning of the day, our mind is accustomed to rest.  There are less thoughts that we may have given entitlement to, viewed through a false lens of permanence, falsely likened to our identity or to the source of the stresses of our days.  Connecting our consciousness to an appreciation for breath, as it extends far and beyond those spaces where thoughts rise and fall, to the deep space within us before our day begins, makes it much easier to see our thoughts as conditional throughout the rest of our day.  To honor something as conditional makes it much easier to accept with ease.  To know things rise... fall... to know that what is fixed among all that flows is our ability to accept, to love and pass on this peace will help allow us to more gracefully and happily move into our day.  It's a simple practice that can change your life.  Health=Ease.  Accept all conditions with an air of peace.  This air of acceptance and love prevents all DIS-EASE. 

  

On Writings:
"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?"
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”
"What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.” 

On Souls:
"Man is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.” 
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

We are our most supportive channels. Look into the eyes of the people you love. Let yourself be moved by the people you admire. We hold vast worlds of meaning and create greater connectivity when we share our values & dreams. Illuminate paths, live in inspired connectivity. 

"To survive you've got to depend on each other, that's the way. If we didn't g...et along a long time ago, and if the people didn't agree and come together and help one another, we wouldn't have survived the hardships. So, we have to learn to bring that back. We have to learn how to put our differences aside rather than getting into "this person has more money" or "that person has more money", or, "this person has more knowledge" or "that person has more knowledge". We have to learn to get along. We don't have time to be arguing and putting each other down, there's no time for that anymore. "

-Nathan Chasing Horse, LakotaSee moreIndigenous Peoples of Turtle Islandby: Walking the Red Road

"If you are not fully enjoying your meditation in the present moment, you are not doing it in the proper spirit." Thakin Kung.

Allow yourself to feel goooooood about the present moment. That is the ticket to a fully expanded consciousness ♥

~*~*~*~....Mind Designs....~*~*~*~ the universe's intelligent way of allowing our lives to take flight! Think it, Design it!! There's more than life just happening by chance. Hold your thoughts dear to you... make them beautiful ♥

Your soul magnifies who, what and the ways you love. Ba a radiant extension always, flock to what thrusts you out of the boundaries of your skin with all your ♥ & affection.


The opportunities you are abundant in are reflective of what, up to this point, you have been polishing & preparing for & are now most ready to give ♥ Adore life for allowing you to shine in your fullest expressions ♥

The point of your life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. - To those beautiful acts which allow us to experience life's fruitful pageantry, and to the people who when experienced with together, make the whole moment glow with much more brilliance.

“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” ~Alan Watts

I'm going to add yoga and writing to this <3

“When accomplished artists are working on their artistic creations, they are completely filled with what they are doing. At that level, a person doesn’t have any other mind than being an artist, one hundred percent. Complete concentration is involved when somebody is executing a work of art. That is the mark of a master.” ~from Ocean of Dharma by Chogyam Trungpa edited by Carolyn Rose Gimia

what biking, as late, has been meaning to me: Finding the space, the breath in the adventures & scenery we ♥

in yoga & in the ways we choose 2 move thru life, press thru the heal for RESOLVE~determined intent ♥

Extraordinary people dont fall, but RISE IN LOVE! We give new visions of life & help open windows we may have had difficulty opening on our own.

We are not isolated beings meant to live isolated lives... Embrace our deep ecology. Be that tree, that breath of fresh air ♥

"There is nothing more truly artistic or strengthening than 2 love.  Love brings difficulties, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
To know God is to love many things.  It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
~ van Gogh

Rise UP! <3

She and comparisons are odious.
Elegy VIII: The Comparison.

We can die by it, if not live by love, 
    And if unfit for tomb or hearse
    Our legend be, it will be fit for verse ; 
And if no piece of chronicle we prove, 
        We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms ; 
        As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs, 
    And by these hymns, all shall approve 
    Us canonized for love ;
The Canonization

John Donne

"To tread the path, we must become the path." ---Alice Bailey

"God is the name given to the conscious Life of Earth."

"Esoteric - from the Greek root "eso" - simply means "inner or inward, hidden from view."
~ the invisible energies and forces emanating from subtler realms that vitalize & organize the outer, physical forms of our concrete, material world."

--When the Sould Awakens, Nancy Seifer & Martin Vieweg