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Word for the Day
A red Lululemon shopping bag sat in our living room for a couple of weeks. Along with the phrase “this is yoga,” a column of 18 words ran down the side of the bag: ACCEPTANCE, HUMILITY, STILLNESS, ATTENTION, DEVOTION, LETTING GO, MEDITATION, SELF-DISCIPLINE, INTENTION, CONCENTRATION, GENEROSITY, SELF-DISCOVERY, PURITY, NONVIOLENCE, BREATH, TRUST, COMPASSION, PATIENCE.
After many mornings of staring at the list, I began choosing one of the words each day as a theme. Some days the chosen word is an antidote—stillness on a day that feels hectic. At other times, the word is a skill to be honed, like generosity. Or it may be a word to deepen a current mood, such as acceptance.
So far, nonviolence hasn’t been a theme. And I’ve added awareness as a prompt for backing off mental processing for a while and just taking in what’s around me. The list itself encourages choice.
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GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
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Quiet Mind is the way your mind recovers from overwork. The mind is constantly processing daily life and its challenges…. [It] naturally wants to be quiet when no activity is necessary. In peace and silence lie the simple contentment of existence and a renewed appetite for the next situation that demands a response. (page 53)
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Close your eyes and visualize complete blackness…. Now open your eyes and look at the room around you.
Where is the miracle?
When your eyes were closed and you imagined nothing but blackness, you were seeing your room as it actually is. No light exists without you to perform the miracle of turning invisible photons into brightness, color, and shape. The night sky actually is black. Stars do not shine. The noonday sky is also black. The sun doesn’t shine.
…The fact that we see things happens entirely in consciousness…. (p. 203)
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far. Each thought we think is tinged with our own character." Swami Vivekananda
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They saw evolution not as a logical disproof of God, but as a tangible demonstration of divine power
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