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About Me

living yoga in every moment

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Sylvia Plath

this
we have now
is not imagination.
this
is not
grief or joy.
not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.
those come and go.
this
is the presence that doesn’t.
it’s dawn, my friend,
here in the splendor of coral,
inside the friend, in the simple truth
of what hallaj said.
what else could human beings want?
when grapes turn to wine,
they’re wanting
this.
when the nightsky pours by,
it’s really a crowd of beggars,
and they all want some of this!
this
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell, like bees building a honeycomb.
the body and the universe
grew from this, not
this from the universe and the human body.

rumi