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It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Saturday, July 09, 2005

Today I am feeling a wonderful sense of amazement. I am feeling a much deeper sense of my personal spirituality than I have in a long time. I'm not sure what stirred this, I think it was Yanna's dvd. She gave me a new one today to watch. She went away to visit her teacher Marahaji. She recommended I look at his website on the internet. Which I did.

She touched something inside of me today. She didn't say anything at all. She just started at me, for what seemed like a good 10 minutes when I arrived for my session today. She smiled warmly and stared gently. Just watching me. Absorbing me. I felt a great burden lifted off my shoulders. I write this as the tears stream down my cheeks.

We talked about my feelings for you today, which seems to be the context of most of our conversations.
I told her of whats transpired and how I feel about it. She re-affirmed some insights I have.


It's so comforting to know I have someone on my side. Though I guess, everyone is on my side. She hugs me so gently. She helps me to connect to that part of me which loves me.

I am so grateful to have her in my life. My reading I had a few weeks ago brought up someone who is of great spiritual influence in my life, someone who would help guide me to my center being. I wasn't sure who this was. But now I know.

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