by Shanti | May 16, 2018 | Image, Inspiration, Life, nature, Travel, Uncategorized, Yoga
While I was recently in Rishikesh, India, I spent a luxurious amount of time sitting on the Banks of The Ganges. The locals call her Ma Ganga and to them she is a living Goddess. Immersed in this constant flow, the river while ever-changing is also somehow unchanging....
by Shanti | Apr 15, 2018 | Image, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of...
by Shanti | Mar 1, 2017 | Image, Inspiration, Life
Modern culture is quick to asses itself as advanced and everything else as primitive. Yet the test of time is probably the most pressing of all. Bypassing the ancient wisdoms indigenous cultures contain is like the know it all teenager who won’t listen to...
by Shanti | Feb 1, 2017 | Image, Inspiration, Life, Meditation, Uncategorized, Yoga
Manjushri is a Bodhisattva considered the personification of the combined wisdom of all the Buddhas. He holds a sword in his right hand — symbolizing his ability to cut through delusion. In his left hand, by his heart, he holds the stem of a lotus flower, which bears...
by Shanti | Jan 20, 2017 | Image, Inspiration, Meditation, Poetry, Yoga
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor...
by Shanti | Dec 5, 2016 | Image, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
“If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longer lift anything to your mouth that might wound your precious land- that sacred earth that is your body. If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your...
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