What were those readings?

Posted by on Aug 28, 2009 in Blog, Inspired Readings, Yoga Readings | Comments Off

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Bird Wings
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you’ve been bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as bird wings.

— Rumi


VOID

Thirty spokes will converge
In the HUB of a wheel
But the use of the cart
Will depend on the part
Of the hub that is void

With a wall around
a clay bowl is molded
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void.

Cut out the windows and doors
In the house as you build
But the use of the house will depend on the space
In the walls that is void
So advantage is had from whatever is there
but usefulness arise
From whatever is not

The Tao Te Ching

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