Category: Quote

Quote of the Day

If you awoke today “thinking,” I have a lot to do. Maybe “thinking,” I have too much to do today.

Remove “thinking” and replace with “presence” and rephrase. You will witness a very different experience as you allow rather than work to control an outcome.

“I enjoy this new day moment by moment. Everything I bring my attention to is special and exciting.  I witness each new breath through the eyes of a child, allowing whatever “is” to be as it is.”

Quieting the Mind

Asked recently how I quiet my mind during Yoga, this thought came to mind.

“I increase the length of my breath where possible and let my natural breath guide me inward. I move through pose without roughness like drawing a circle, allowing my circle to get bigger and bigger. I release awareness of the class around me, finding oneness and stillness with all that is.”

A Poem for Spring

The time will come
when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

by Derek Walcott