Lifessons

where there is duality

ego = fear

its plain to see.

prepare for flight

and watch the ego

create

instigate

provoke

.

don’t will for the opposite.

stop playing a part.

be lovingly whole. in between the yes & no.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    TELL me not, in mournful numbers,

    Life is but an empty dream!—

    For the soul is dead that slumbers,

    And things are not what they seem.

    Life is real! Life is earnest!

    And the grave is not its goal;

    Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

    Was not spoken of the soul.

    Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

    Is our destined end or way;

    But to act, that each to-morrow

    Find us farther than to-day.

    Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

    And our hearts, though stout and brave,

    Still, like muffled drums, are beating

    Funeral marches to the grave.

    In the world’s broad field of battle,

    In the bivouac of Life,

    Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

    Be a hero in the strife!

    Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

    Let the dead Past bury its dead!

    Act,—act in the living Present!

    Heart within, and God o’erhead!

    Lives of great men all remind us

    We can make our lives sublime,

    And, departing, leave behind us

    Footprints on the sands of time;

    Footprints, that perhaps another,

    Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

    Seeing, shall take heart again.

    Let us, then, be up and doing,

    With a heart for any fate;

    Still achieving, still pursuing,

    Learn to labor and to wait.

p.r.a.c.t.i.c.e.

self-study

&

sur-

render

raindrops during savasana**

(written in Karachi, during monsoon season, Sept 7, 2011)

Life is thick

like these

monsoon clouds;

wistful, and full of

grace.

****The final relaxation pose after a yoga practice, where you lie still, for many the hardest pose in yoga.

new moon:

make an intention

in the vast

space of the

starry night.