Quotes From Classes
The right words, shared at the right moment and in the right way, can open doorways to deepen our experience in the practice. May these words be of benefit!
Week of September 29
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” Our theme in classes this week comes from the Mary Oliver poem, “Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches,” which is too long to share here, but worth reading!
“Breath is the very first thing we give to this world and the very last thing we are allowed to take from it. Breathing is what we do before we understand a single thing about our world, and the last thing we will do despite all of our hard-earned wisdom...Real rest is the breath simply looking after itself and looking after everything else as it does it. Breath is not only an invitation into the body but the essence of the way we already know how to live in that body. Easy, relaxed, breathing always leads to surprise: at how centered we already are, how unhurried we are underneath it all, how patient we never knew we could be.”