Another Journey

• 2013-05-14 0 notes

  Must

  No matter what, I must go to yoga today. My shoulders have been up to my ears for the past two weeks. Must de-stress.

• 2013-05-13 16 notes

  While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a little silly: Why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that’s precisely the point. The fact that I am standing there and washing these bowls is a following of my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There’s no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

  — Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-), Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk

• 2013-05-10 6 notes

  We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1995), French Jesuit priest

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  Compassion: The Bedrock Of Our Capacity to Serve

  Why compassion is a necessary quality in business, particularly within social entrepreneurship:

  When leaders cultivate compassion by addressing the negativity within, they strengthen their ability to build compassion into the framework of their businesses. This, in turn, directly impacts the implementation of their mission. This requires humility—the recognition that, while compassion is intrinsic to our nature, few of us are completely free of negativity and, consequently, all of us have inner work to do.

• 2013-05-09 0 notes

  When you’re stuck in traffic and waiting in line at the grocery store, remember that you can choose how you see the world in those moments. Inspiration to be peace this week of Grow Your Yoga.

• 2013-05-08 1 note

  Grow Your Yoga, Week 1: Vegan Challenge

  I missed meat this week. And dairy, which is funny because I don’t eat that much dairy normally but it turns out whenever I want something vegetarian, I opt for cheese as a substitute. On Day 1, I mixed some previously purchased breadcrumbs into a quinoa mix, only to read the breadcrumb ingredients after and notice it contains whole dried egg and a ton of other preservative crap! I realized this must have been left over from days when I didn’t read ingredient lists but I was still shocked.

  Day 4 was my three-year-old niece’s birthday party, which was a barbecue at my sister’s house. Meat-fest galore and my sister and her husband are excellent cooks. I debated cheating for this one day, this one special occasion, but my sister likes well-rounded meals so she inadvertently prepared a few vegan dishes that filled me up nicely: a mustard potato salad, a Lebanese-spiced leaf-lettuce salad and grilled vegetable skewers. I was also bummed that I couldn’t eat the cake, which is from our favourite patisserie that uses real cream and butter, but I stuck with fruit.

  After I got back home from the long kid-filled day, my body felt light and I had a lot of energy still, which normally doesn’t happen after one of my sister’s barbecue. I was actually happy that I wasn’t overstuffed with meat and cake because I needed to spend the evening packing for a move.

  So the conclusion for Week 1 of the vegan challenge is that my body is happy with what I’m doing even if my taste buds get really sad from time to time.

• 2013-05-07 0 notes

  

  Very excited about this special yoga event, coming to Toronto on Sat. Jun. 22. Practicing yoga outdoors with hundreds (possibly thousands!) of people, wearing all white, led by one of my favourite yoga teachers, Grace Dubery.
  
  Registration is free and the event provides you a yoga mat!

• 2013-05-06 0 notes

  Today is the 4th anniversary of my first Moksha Yoga class at the North York studio in Toronto. I am grateful for a healthy body, to walk in nature, and to love and be loved.

  Source: Bandcamp

• 2013-05-01 1 note

  

  This about sums up the life of a writer! (Minus the part where my writings have won prizes…)

• 2013-04-24 5 notes