High and purple-ish
Running above winding stream –
Reflected sunset
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Circus caravan
Along roads of orange dust:
A three-day journey

High and purple-ish
Running above winding stream –
Reflected sunset
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Circus caravan
Along roads of orange dust:
A three-day journey

“Shock and awe is a military tactic. Comfort and awe is a spiritual alternative. The military option supports the will to dominate. The spiritual option supports the commitment to liberate. We share with all people an awesome grace: the path to peace, on the walk of truth and reconciliation, with justice lived for the sake of all creation. We do not seek control, but something much more transformational and enduring. We seek kinship.”
(Photo by Kinø on Unsplash)

The following graphic (source unknown) is a good reminder that there is far more to Yoga than just asana practice (yoga poses). While the poses keep our physical bodies strong, flexible, and balanced, other aspects of Yoga train the mind, help us work with our inner strengths and weaknesses, control energy levels, and connect us to our own inner peace – which then carries into the rest of our lives and decisions. This is why Yoga can have such a powerful effect over every aspect of our lives, including the way we approach our work and our relationships.

It Is Not The Fact That I Will Die That I Mind
but that no one will love as I did
the oak tree out my boyhood window,
the mother who set herself
so stubbornly against life,
the sister with her serious frown
and her wish for someone at her side,
the father with his dreamy gaze
and his left hand idly buried
in the fur of his dog.
And the dog herself,
that mournful look and huge appetite,
her need for absolute stillness
in the presence of a bird.
I know how each of them looks
when asleep. And I know how it feels
to fall asleep among them.
No one knows that but me,
No one knows how to love the way I do.
––Jim Moore

This is Yoga, Oneness, Unity, Union with the Divine….
“When we know Holy Truth, all sense of separateness, alienation, fear, and desire ends. We feel our unity with the One and realize that it has never been otherwise.”
(Riso and Hudson, Understanding the Enneagram, 59)
