An angel incarnate
Thursday nights are special for me as they are the nights I lead a yoga session. Throughout the week prior to my class I keep my eyes open for an inspirational poem, quote or passage from a book so that I can share it during shavaasana (final relaxation). I am lucky to have a wonderful assistant in class, Sabah, who is always sharing her own findings and reads with me to the class. I’ve decided to include them here for anyone that would like to refer back to them or share.
Read on the night of November 4, 2010
The Lute Will Beg
You need to become a pen
In the Sun´s hand.
We need for the earth to sing
Through our pores and eyes.
The body will again become restless
Until your soul paints all its beauty
Upon the sky.
Don´t tell me, dear ones,
That what Hafiz says is not true,
For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny
And you awake to our constant need
for your love
God´s lute will beg
For your hands.
—Hafiz
Read on the night of November 11, 2010
Let there be space in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Stand together yet not too near together, for the pillars of a temple stand apart;
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
~ Khalil Gibran
Read on the night of November 18, 2010
The Meaning of Love
Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless.
Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious
by the light of Love.
—Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
Read on the night of December 2, 2010
“Today is another precious day on earth. We shall live it with joy. We accept this gift with gratitude and joy. We realize that we have no time to waste on living in the past. So we go within, and seeing with eyes of love, we seek out all the dark corners where pain and fear dwell. We no longer choose to put up with these old handicaps. We move into our heart space, and we bring the abundant light of love we carry within us. We allow this love, which sees without judgment or expectation, to flood our body, our mind, our consciousness. This light of love shines on and dissolves all that is unlike itself. We are willing to release all old garbage. It has no life of its own; it has no truth in it. It is only an old memory that no longer exists, disappearing from our lives. We are one with the power that created us!”—Louise L. Hay
