Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The oneness that our Yoga practices encourages us to cultivate


Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we will be exploring the oneness that our Yoga practices encourages us to cultivate.

But charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.   

                                                             – G. K. Chesterton

Every one of us can learn to love without qualifications or reservations. Naturally, we start with imperfections. But there is no need to throw up our hands as so many are doing today and say, "Let us be separate and have a relationship. Here are my duties, here are yours. This is the boundary line. If you stay on your side, I'll respect you; but if you cross over, you're an invader." Wherever people go their separate ways like this, love cannot grow. It is not possible to have both separateness and intimacy.

Words to Live By: Inspiration for Every Day – Eknath Easwaran

The homework is to embrace the oneness that our Yoga practices encourages us to cultivate and apply this concept to all of your relationships.  Observe the changes that come as a result of this effort.

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994

www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com

Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003

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