Posts Tagged "Danna Faulds"
The Taste of Truth
For the moment, I’ve stopped struggling. The undertow tugs at my clothes and the current takes me where it will. Surrender sounds like defeat, but this tastes like victory, the sweet release into something open, empty, yet complete. My heartspeaks, instructing me to relinquish all control. I close my eyes, and see myself dissolving while remaining whole. When, at last, I am delivered...
Read MoreJust For Now
Reading at Anara practice 2/7/2013 Just for now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your experience. Breathe out whatever blocks you-...
Read MorePairs of Opposites
Reading at Kalaheo and Anara practice 12/20/2012 I was born to bridge the pairs of opposites, to span the apparent distance between light and dark, joy and sorrow. I exist to see past differences, to open my arms so wide that all I can see and know and be is inside my reach. I am here to give and receive love; so closely attuned to All That Is that breathing is an act of passionate attraction. I...
Read MoreThe Way of Transformation
Reading at Kalaheo and Anara practice 11/15/2012 Do you seek me, yet expect to stay unchanged? Do you look for transformation and pray each day for the seas to remain calm? That is not the way. If you stir up cosmic energies, if you wake the sleeping snake, you will pay for your audacity. There will be times of bliss and quiet, but there will also be earthquakes, tornadoes tidal waves that...
Read MoreThe Essence of My Practice
Reading at Anara practice 10/8/2012 My practice moves from edge to edge, exploring the limits of a stretch, the inner realm of energy and breath. Each movement plumbs new depths of self-awareness. Who am I now, and now, and now? Who holds this pose with single-pointed focus, or loses the thread of breath and stops to find the center once again? Have I reached my full expression, or is there...
Read MoreIt’s What We Are
Beneath the seething sea of feelings, sense impressions, thoughts and interactions the ground of being rests. Like bedrock on the ocean floor it forms a container for the psyche. It’s the source of the “something more” we’re always looking for. It’s here, not somewhere different. It’s now, not tomorrow or next year. Sinking into its support, we find...
Read MoreThe Taste of Truth
Reading at Anara practice 6/13/2012 For the moment I’ve stopped struggling. The undertow tugs at my clothes and the current takes me where it will. Surrender sounds like defeat but this tastes like victory the sweet release into something open empty yet complete. My heart speaks instructing me to relinquish all control, I close my eyes and see myself dissolving while remaining whole. When...
Read MoreSomething To Give Back
Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 2/9/2012 Here is my deepest and most pleasing secret; I have something to give back to the Creator. It is no material thing, this offering, but the emanation of my being, a wordless rejoicing, spirit giving back to spirit, my life as heart-felt offering. What I give is taken in with such unquestioning acceptance, a receptivity so vast that I want to pour...
Read MoreThe Essence of My Practice
Reading at Koloa practice 9/15/2011 My practice moves from edge to edge, exploring the limits of a stretch, the inner realm of energy and breath. Each movement plumbs new depths of self-awareness. Who am I now, and now, and now? Who holds this pose with single-pointed focus, or loses the thread of breath and stops to find the center once again? Have I reached my full expression, or is there...
Read MoreOne and Two are Both True
Reading at Anara practice 7/06/2011 “I am everywhere present,” said the Lord. Seek me in the stately trees or the melodies of sparrows and you will surely find me. Look for me in the Buddha’s smile, the countenance of Christ, the words of the Koran and Sanskrit prayers. I am always there. Turn your attention to the sky where the movements of moon and stars trace my...
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