COMPASSION “We are human beings, not human doings” This is a quote I first read in the introduction of Judith Hanson Lasater’s restorative yoga book “Relax and Renew”. When you google it, the quote (or a variation of it) has been attributed to H.H. the Dalai Lama, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra, British business mogul Richard …
NAMASTE can be both a simple greeting and a sign of respect. It is a Sanskrit word that literally means “I bow” (namah) “to you” (te). One of the more widely spread esoteric translations is “The light in me honors the light in you”, pointing to the belief that all human beings share a common …
OM/AUM is the primordial sound, the first sound from which the universe came into existence. The first vibration, also called the Nadam, was “unstruck,” meaning that it occurred where there were no things to strike against each other to make a sound. That first very subtle vibration is still resonating through each and every sound …
When we look at life in general, the world is creating and re-creating itself non-stop. Nothing can keep the world and its creatures away from the eternal dance of life and death. Every movement of this dance, like any note of music or brush stroke, carries in itself the seed for the creation of something …
