"You are here to enable the devine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!" -- Eckhart Tolle. What does it mean to do a silent retreat for more than 5 days? My first reaction was, how lonely that must be, and could I ever do something like that? I finally …
Category: Meditation
Commitment
"Commitment is only one of two things - in or out" -- a quote from Mokshapriya‘s sunshine lecture. My Guruji Mokshapriya, asked us to commit ourselves to meditation in one yoga retreat. Without much thought, I made the promise to commit myself every day to meditate. Once I committed, my meditation practice started, and …
Impermanence
"The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living …