Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Rose,from "Women in Praise of the Sacred"


The treasure at the heart of the rose

is your own heart's treasure.

Scatter it as the rose does;

your pain becomes hers to measure.


Scatter it in a song,

or in one great love's desire.

Do not resist the rose

lest you burn in its fire.


~Gabriela Mistral

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

"In ancient dark times yoga flourished
as the means by which ordinary folk
absorb the nuturing force of Life.
Yoga is strength receiving,
the male surrender to the feminine".
~Mark Whitwell
Sri Yantra depicts the fundamental feeling of
the upward- moving strength of our own life
merging with the downward, receptive quality from above.
Without any action we can contimplate and feel
this movement and relationships of Life.
Sri Yantra is therefore very worthy of this relaxed attention,
particularly before and after asana and pranayama

Thursday, July 3, 2008

You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves.
Mary Oliver,
from "Wild Geese"