| Since I just wrote a post on the importance of the Breath,I did a search for other posts which mention breathing. Up came my friend Liz’s first post,ever,from July,2005. It’s called Breathing Room. One of my favorite quotes ever comes from the end of this short little post. Liz writes,“When [...] As I lay in bed one night,unable to sleep,I decided to watch my breath as a mediation. Not only is breathing vital to living,it holds the path to relaxation and ultimately can help us gain control over our lives. Symbolically,it represents various cycles of life:birth-death,day-night,Summer-Winter. The delicate [...] Watching some “boob tube”(as my mother calls it) on Valentine’s Day,I couldn’t help but notice the most common themes on sitcoms were pitiful rejections and absurd self-deprecation glorified by favorite characters on Will and Grace,Becker and Scrubs. Though I have trouble understanding the comedy of some of those characters,I can [...] There’s really only one rule in life:balance. Think of the common image indicating Taoist thought,a circle with joined black and white “tadpoles”chasing each other. The whole is made of balanced opposites. Unbalance in one part affects the whole,no exceptions. The past few months I’ve been tipping slowly off balance toward [...] | |
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