Miracles

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we are considering miracles.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. Every square yard of the surface of the earth Is spread with the same. . . . What strange miracles are these! Everywhere . . .

-Walt Whitman

Once when I was giving a talk I used the word "miracles," and someone in the audience asked skeptically, "Tell us about one."

Every moment you remain alive is a miracle. Talk to medical people; they will tell you there are a million and one things that can go wrong with this body of ours at any given instant. It is only because we haven't developed the capacity for appreciating miracles that we don't see them all around us. Life is a continuous miracle: not only joy but sorrow too; not only birth but death too.

But the most precious miracle of all is to see the divinity in every creature - when we see that the divinity in our hearts is our real Self, and that it is the same Self shining in all.

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

The homework is to work to appreciate the little things and find the miracles in the simplest of daily activities. Next consider what it would mean if we all looked at each other as if the other was divine, as if the other was truly a miracle. How would this impact our relationships and the way we treat each other?

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994

www.rushingwateryoga.com
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Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003