Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman, civil rights leader

You have enemies?
Good.
That means you have stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
--Winston Churchill

May the beauty
of what you love
be what you do.
--Rumi

No one has to do everything but everyone has to do something.
--GreenDot

Never give up on something you can't go a single day without thinking about.
--Anonymous

(I am suspicious of the word "never". It goes right in with "always" and "should". And I notice that after a while, the thought occurrences of a person who is gone do decrease. Maybe never completely gone, but at least not so torturous. I do however think that this quote, as a mantra, is destructive by encouraging obsessive thought, and will impede the process of letting go, and hence I apologize for posting it. I just had to.)

OK, where is this place?
( my brain is storming about my new home and practiceCollapse )

...or birthday, if you prefer. August 15th marked 12 years after John Friend first penned the mission statement for Anusara yoga. He worked hard to put his vision into words, and the beauty of the vision was enough to bring many practitioners into the fold. His school of hatha yoga has quickly become widespread around the world. I am one of the many who have been enchanted by it.

Here is John Friend's blog about the beginnings of Anusara.

Also, here is Friend's writeup of ethics for the yoga teacher.


That's him in the brown T-shirt and white hair. Do you GET the joy???