Open to grace by grounding in your own steadiness. There is beauty there. Sacrum is the point of the vertebral column that is directly connected with or forms a part of the pelvis and in humans consists of five fused vertebrae. From Latin os saracrum, literally, holy bone.
The Bicycle Tree, just off the highway, appears to have eaten a small bicycle. That’s not far from the truth: many years ago, a child left a red bike against the tree, and, this being Vashon, the bike was left unmolested for so long that the tree grew a branch under the bike and eventually subsumed the frame into its trunk, leaving only the wheels and handlebars sticking out.
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance with our innermost being.”
~Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth.
Photo by Ross Websdale. (Taken with instagram)
There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It’s as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.
— Jean Vanier
Once again…
Lucien Hervé, Paris sans quitter ma fenetre (Les Cyclistes), 1948
“As yogis and conscientious humans we can acknowledge and pay tribute to our past (the difficulties, the obstacles, the joys, the efforts we’ve made, the practitioners who have come before us, etc.) and build upon it. We can create different, inventive ways of doing something or of being in the world. The technology and practice of Yoga has generated great transformations in my life and I often approach those changes as if they will nullify the past, hoping to be completely freed of all my transgressions, blunders, pains, injuries, bad habits, etcetera…. But what if I let all that stuff be there, accepted it – allowed space for it and room for “more and more and more” to enter? And then made an offering of my life that, like de Kooning’s retrospective, was an honest, full, inventive and inspiring expression.”
Jane Goodall interview at 50th anniversary of the beginning of her field work. She discusses her perspectives on spirituality and the “spark” inside us all.
Phillip Askew & Lydia Walker - Variations On Surya Namaskara (Music by Jonah Rank)
