Poetry
Yoga and Poetry. What do they share? Both require being attentive, staying engaged, and directly encountering your own experience.
From the start, possibly 5,000 years ago in India, yoga was always much more than the physical practice but a meditative practice seeking the inner self.
Cultivating an awareness of the distinction between the false self– the ego - and the true self - that which makes you, you – is the lifelong practice.
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Poetry is a beautiful vehicle for this same exploration. It’s short, ambiguous, open to interpretation. Poetry is both direct and somewhat elusive.
Over the Weather by Naomi Shihab Nye
We forget about the spaciousness
above the clouds
but it's up there. The sun's up there too.
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When words we hear don't fit the day,
when we worry
what we did or didn't do,
what if we close our eyes,
say any word we love
that makes us feel calm,
slip it into the atmosphere
and rise?
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Creamy miles of quiet.
Giant swoop of blue.
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