Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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Todays gratitude
1. Free personal trainers :)
My favorite yoga student < Dawn > is currently about 8 weeks from getting her certification in fitness training and nutrition and she needs people to train. I'm one of those people!!!YAY! So grateful and I need this really bad. I've been going to the gym for two years...I eat healthy and cannot lose a pound. HELP ME. I have high hopes Dawn. Thank you :))
2. Belly dancing. Loving this class. I'm going to continue taking it whenever it is offered. I like the teacher and the other students are fun! It's a great workout too.
3. "The Diamond in your Pocket" the book I'm reading by Gangaji. Here are a few parts I've highlighted so far.
*Every thing is subject to change. All objects, thoughts, feelings, states of mind, health and governments. Every circumstance changes. pg.64
*As long as we settle for the superficial truths, we tragically miss the deeper revelation. pg.66
*Language is an incredible power of the mind. But if we look at it carefully, we see that it is still in the very primitive stages of development. Everyone can recognize this, just from the experience of trying to communicate with someone else. You know what you said, but they think you said something else. pg.93
*When you meet suffering head-on, you make the exquisite, paradoxical discovery that suffering holds the very jewel that was sought in the attempt to escape it. pg. 159
*I invite you for just this moment to stop searching for relief from suffering. The invitation is neither to become oblivious to suffering, nor to give up in despair. It is an invitation to stop searching for something to rescue you from yourself. pg.167
*To be supported, you have to choose to receive the support fully and completely. pg.169
*What a strange creature fear is. It exists only when there is resistance to it's existence! pg.175
*Spiritual maturity has little to do with how people usually conceive it. It is not related to the years you have devoted to spiritual practice, or the number of years you have prayed, gone to church or been good. pg.177
4. Both of my children are enrolled in college and will begin classes in Jan. I by NO MEANS believe that you must have a college education to succeed in life ..as our society would have us believe..but I am a fan of continued education.
5. Discussing life with my husband.
6. Asking tough questions.
7. It's November!! I'm madly in love with the month of November. One of my favorite months for sure!
8. Surrender: You are either in a state of surrender or in a state of war.
Surrender to your current life circumstances humbly and gracefully. What does this mean, exactly?It means stopping the struggle. Giving up the fight. Awakening to the realization that the more you fight something, the stronger and more pervasive it will become in your life. Fighting is not the way to peace - surrender is.
When you read the word "surrender," you probably relate it to "defeat" but the two are entirely different. Defeat means you've lost the battle; it denotes weakness. Surrender means you've chosen not to fight and struggle anymore, and this decision comes from a place of POWER.
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