Laura Erdman-Luntz, MA, E-RYT(500) | Yoga | Yoga Teacher Training | Minnesota | Costa Rica | Life Coaching

The Guest House by Rumi

 

The Guest House 

This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning a new arrival. 

A joy, a depression, a meanness, 
some momentary awareness comes 
as an unexpected visitor. 

Welcome and entertain them all! 
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, 
who violently sweep your house 
empty of its furniture, 
still, treat each guest honorably. 
He may be clearing you out 
for some new delight. 

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, 
meet them at the door laughing, 
and invite them in. 

Be grateful for whoever comes, 
because each has been sent 
as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

 

Inspiration: What if...

What if...

What if our religion was each other,
if our practice was our life,
if prayer our words ?
What if the temple was the Earth,
if forests were our church,
if holywaters ~ the rivers, lakes and oceans.
What if mediation was our relationships,
if the teacher was life,
if wisdom was self-knowledge,
if love was the center of our being ?

~Ganga White

So, how is your mind looking at what happens?

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Be Patient

 

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Inspiration: Our Own Self-Importance

"Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance. If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and tow, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

~ Carlos Castaneda

95-Year Old Yogini

May she inspire you deeply...

 

My friend Maia from julia warr on Vimeo.

Inspiration: Keep Going

 

When you have gone so far
that you cannot manage one more step,
then you have gone
just half the distance
that you are capable of.

~Greenland Proverb

Inspiration: Today is a Gift

Inspirations: Saucha (Purity)

"Wherever you find yourself on the saucha continuum, sauch remains two things.
First, it is a leap of faith, because we are often too tired, too sad, or too angry to believe that anything will really make a difference.  And second, it is an everyday practice, because yesterday's saucha serves only as a reminder of today's potention."

~ Rolf Gates, Meditions From the Mat