Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things

 Leo F. Buscaglia

Forgiveness heals. It makes us more humble. More positive. It enhances our ability to help others and our ability to help ourselves.

It makes us one. Instead of separate.
Unique but not separate.
Unite.

We know that no one can love us if we don’t love ourselves.
We know we shouldn’t blame ourselves for things other people have done.
We know we need to accept ourselves or else we’ll never be happy.
But even if we do know all these things we tend to forget.
We do know intellectually.
And we forget how it is to know it from the inside.
Feeling it. Own it -  from deep within.
We need a reminder. A breath. A pause. A reflection.
And accept that this is how it is. And we are good enough.
I forgive myself for not knowing.

Forgiving isn’t easy.
If we want to heal, we must learn to forgive.
Forgive others without grudges and most importantly, forgive ourselves.
We are not alone.
We’re all human.
And we are on this journey together.

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath.
And say to yourself:

“It’s not my fault”

Repeat and make that a manifest in your heart.

Y o u   a r e   g o o d   e n o u g h

unfolding

being humble

Humility is not something that comes naturally to most of us.
We live in an extremly competitive society. 
Humility is a reminder that we have so much more to learn.
A signal to others that we are ready to recieve their wisdom. Their knowledge.
A reminder to listen. To learn.
Appreciate. Give thanks to.
A humble person is someone who doesen`t need to brag or trying to impress themselves.

Yoga makes me humble. To be sweet to myself makes me humble.
When I meet my closest like it was the first -
e v e r y s i n g l e t i m e -  makes me humble.
To recive others knowledge and wisdom.
To be interested and not interesting.
To allow what is.
To rock my inner world.
To love.


with humility and wonder
maria

dandelion in space

w a i t i n g

Not going, not coming

rooted, deep and still

not reaching out, not reaching in

just resting, at the center

a single jewel, the flawless crystal drop

in the blaze of its brilliance

the way beyond

Shih-Te





tussilago farfara

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep

Elbert Hubbart

sweet sharing between soulsisters december 2012

The Wise Woman’s Stone

....about Vairagya : letting go, acceptance, detachment
I share this story.....

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.

The next day, she met another traveler who was hungry,
and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him.
She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune.
He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.

But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
”I’ve been thinking,” he said,
“I know how valuable the stone is,
but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious.
Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”

Author: Unknown

Vairagya : letting go, acceptance, detachment

“Vairagya” is the term in yoga philosophy that describes non-attachment.
The term “yoga" itself comes from the verb “to yoke,” to be steadfast with something.
This is different from clinging to things out of fear.
Which leads us to attachment. 
Attachment is one of the main causes in our lives of unhappiness. Or gloominess.
Vairagya refers to our ability to let go of things, to leave them be, as well as to go for a challenge.
We need both action and inaction in our lives to keep balanced, and the practice of vairagya helps us stay away from getting too attached.

Vairagya, or non-attachment is truly a powerful practice that we can integrate into our daily lives. 
Our yoga practice can help us to slowly break down our old, annoying patterns.
Loosening the grip on things, thoughts and feelings can make us a little less fearful as persons.
To stop clinging to negative thoughts. Or holding on to things, patterns, people we do not need anymore. Or holding on to the sweetness. The joy. The good things, thoughts and emotions.
It requires faith.
And the fact that we must believe in not knowing the outcome.

 
Practice your asanas (especially the ones who are the most challenging to you)
and try not to be so very attached to their outcome.
Humble as always ;)  
Accept what is, and stay present with every precious moment.


The practice of acceptance and non-attachment doesn’t need to be practiced on a yoga mat.
It`s a practice for each and every, single moment of life.
Every moment of our life is an opportunity to grow.
This is why it is so important to embrace each moment with total awareness.
For me that`s freedom.
Enjoyment of the moment is all we have until that moment is gone – so that we may enjoy the next one....or not.


Acceptance is the art of living in the present.

a present moment in Oslo

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