Tag: poetry
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What Happens When Joy Fills You?
Do you break open? Do you fall down? Do you float away? Are we vessels for joy? Maybe. And, like, a lot of others things, too, right? Like pain and despair and incredulousness and dignity, honor, pride, grief, and boredom, and… We carry EVERYTHING. Joy makes us feel alive I think. It feels like the…
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Aliveness Bursts from the Courageous Heart and You Are Home
Courage is meeting ‘the heart’ – where ‘the heart’ is the pulsating vitality of things, of ecological things, that bends you into new shapes. One does not “have” courage; one is summoned by it. Anointed by it. Touched by it. Bayo Akomolafe What is aliveness?Is there meaning here in this word for you? Does…
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Yoga Comes to You
Yoga comes to you when you need it. It’s like a fine fuel, my teacher said; it can last for months, getting you through the hardest moments. The Yoga exists in service to you, my next next teacher said;We do not live in service to yoga, configuring ourselves into shapes. No, the shapes come to…
Amy Secrist 