Existential Grace ( the Caduceus)
Existential Grace
By soozeyq
Hermeneutics
Acknowledgements
My deepest, most heartfelt thanks to John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga, for so Gracefully assuming the seat of the teacher, inspiring me to be courageous and honest with myself and patiently, compassionately providing the mirroring I so needed. Thanks to the Anusara Kula (community) for fertilizing the soil within which I root. Thank you to my invaluable and talented teachers at Seattle University. Because of your humility, vast experience, skill and openness of heart, I have been held safely enough to have able to stretch beyond my dreams and imaginings from when I entered the program. A final word of gratitude to all teachers of Yoga (Anusara Yoga and of course other forms as well) who have contributed in their own unique ways to the fact that many more millions of people today have come to steadily trust the flow of Grace, refine and become more sensitive to their own “Inner Teacher” so that they may live, speak and act more skillfully. Sat Nam. Thanks to my therapist Sue Ann Birdwell whose presence I felt as I wrote about therapeutic openness and love. Last but not least, thank you Joe for affirming to me God’s Grace on a daily basis. What we have together defies all doubt in it.
“Every person mistakes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Middle Point
The yogini closes her outer eyes,
Her inner eyes open to a realm
Of luminescence and infinity.
She rides the electric current between
The inner realms and the outer world,
The Middle Point,
The point of dynamic stillness;
A stillness that listens and responds,
A stillness that is paradoxically
Fluid and receptive.
To live in fullness in the world of form and color, beauty, and change,
The yogini watches the world from her heart;
By soozeyq
Hermeneutics
Acknowledgements
My deepest, most heartfelt thanks to John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga, for so Gracefully assuming the seat of the teacher, inspiring me to be courageous and honest with myself and patiently, compassionately providing the mirroring I so needed. Thanks to the Anusara Kula (community) for fertilizing the soil within which I root. Thank you to my invaluable and talented teachers at Seattle University. Because of your humility, vast experience, skill and openness of heart, I have been held safely enough to have able to stretch beyond my dreams and imaginings from when I entered the program. A final word of gratitude to all teachers of Yoga (Anusara Yoga and of course other forms as well) who have contributed in their own unique ways to the fact that many more millions of people today have come to steadily trust the flow of Grace, refine and become more sensitive to their own “Inner Teacher” so that they may live, speak and act more skillfully. Sat Nam. Thanks to my therapist Sue Ann Birdwell whose presence I felt as I wrote about therapeutic openness and love. Last but not least, thank you Joe for affirming to me God’s Grace on a daily basis. What we have together defies all doubt in it.
“Every person mistakes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Middle Point
The yogini closes her outer eyes,
Her inner eyes open to a realm
Of luminescence and infinity.
She rides the electric current between
The inner realms and the outer world,
The Middle Point,
The point of dynamic stillness;
A stillness that listens and responds,
A stillness that is paradoxically
Fluid and receptive.
To live in fullness in the world of form and color, beauty, and change,
The yogini watches the world from her heart;
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